I've recently migrated a Microsoft SQL 2005 Express with Advanced Services database across to a new Windows 2008 R2 server. There were a number of issues which required I enable 32bit applications in IIS. This allowed my asp.net applications to function correctly.

But on working on SQL Reporting Services I kept recieving the following error when creating a new report server virtual directory:


The details were:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800706BE)
   at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo)
   at System.Management.ManagementObject.InvokeMethod(String methodName, ManagementBaseObject inParameters, InvokeMethodOptions options)
   at ReportServicesConfigUI.WMIProvider.RSReportServerAdmin.CreateVirtualDirectory(String virtualDirectory, String path)
 Turns out the solution to this was quite simple. Enable 32bit applications by running the following script:

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32BitAppOnWin64 “true”
 Finally create an IIS application, set the application pool to Enable32BitApplications = false:




Now you can change the default website to your new website (with 32bit support set to false). It's just a pain because the error is so abiguous.

Hope this helps!

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