"An exception occured while committing IIS configuration changes: Keyset does not exist" with SP2010 configuration

Question

Hi All,

After further investigation I found in the log file a couple of these entries: "An exception occured while committing IIS configuration changes: Keyset does not exist (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80090016) ca46ad74-a24e-49f8-ab81-6453b387f93b"

Standalone vpc, Win2008R2, SQL2008R2 all pre-reqs was installed successfully and SP2010 was installed with no problems. The above error I get on step three of the configuration.

Below is more detail on what it tries to do before the message is logged.(this is from the log file
*NOTE i took out my domain and username and replaced with [ ]*
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Adding [Domain\User] to local group IIS_WPG. ca46ad74-a24e-49f8-ab81-6453b387f93b
Adding [Domain\User] to local group WSS_WPG. ca46ad74-a24e-49f8-ab81-6453b387f93b
Adding [Domain\User] to local group PerformanceMonitorUsers. ca46ad74-a24e-49f8-ab81-6453b387f93b
Attempting to give SE_ASSIGNPRIMARYTOKEN_NAME privilege to application pool user [Domain\User] ca46ad74-a24e-49f8-ab81-6453b387f93b
Attempting to give SE_INCREASE_QUOTA_NAME privilege to application pool user [Domain\User] ca46ad74-a24e-49f8-ab81-6453b387f93b
An exception occured while committing IIS configuration changes: Keyset does not exist (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80090016) ca46ad74-a24e-49f8-ab81-6453b387f93b
Creating new application pool 'SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool'. ca46ad74-a24e-49f8-ab81-6453b387f93b
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Thanks,

Answer 1

Hello _SpaceGhost,

It looks like the LOCAL SERVICE account doesn't have Read Access on the iisWasKey key that's located in the folder:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys. The following is the file name of the iisWasKey key:
76944fb33636aeddb9590521c2e8815a_GUID.

Have you had a chance to try this KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977754?

Thanks!