"No such interface supported" error on IISRESET

Today, one of my customer came up with an error message. He was getting "No such interface supported" when he did an IISRESET. I was not able to reproduce his issue on our box here.

C:\WINNT\system32>iisreset

No such interface supported

I was getting puzzled on seeing this error and did a search on the internet, but didn't get any useful links. Some tried to do a reinstall of IIS. When I was looking through the dlls in system32 folder with regards to IIS, there is a file called iisrstap.dll. I tried to unregister this dll.

C:\WINNT\system32>regsvr32 /u iisrstap.dll

Then, tried an IISRESET command.

C:\WINNT\system32>iisreset

No such interface supported

Great!!!!! I got the same error! Advised one of my friend who is working with that customer now to try the same. Not sure whether this will fix his issue. But I am sure that this will help someone facing this kinda problem. You can try re-registering the iisrstap.dll to fix this problem.

C:\WINNT\system32> regsvr32 iisrstap.dll

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2007
    Thanks so much.  Great fix. :-)

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2008
    Hi, Thanks. It works for me. Just do IISRESET /disable IISRESET /enable after that. Savan

  • Anonymous
    January 22, 2008
    Confirmed fix on SBS 2003. Thanks www.sebastianval.com

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2009
    Outstanding... thanks for the fix.

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2009
    thank you very much, helped me a lot

  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2009
    Great Fix, worked a treat for me !!!

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2009
    thank you,i just deal the problem by you way

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2009
    had this problem, when running "regsvr32 iisrstap.dll" i got an error. i copied this dll from another system, ran the regsvr32 and it resolved the problem.  

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2010
    This worked for me. Thank you so much!

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2011
    Thanks dude,gr8 help i was also giggling with this exception when trying to iisreset but ur effort got helped me lot..thanks once again.keep posting BOL!