IIS not starting on Windows 11 for ARM

Question

I recently made the transition from using a Mac with an Intel processor, to one with an M1 processor.

Being a Windows Developer, this forced me to recreate my Virtual Machines (1 have 1 per Visual Studio version), until recently each VM had 1 shared issue: a lack of a working IIS.

A rather annoying problem, but most of the stuff I do at the moment is in the desktop world, where I don't need a working IIS.

Recently I accepted a project where I would need IIS, and I was consequently very happy when I noticed Windows 11 for ARM finally does support IIS.

I decided to start from scratch and created a new VM with windows 11 pro. After installing I joined it to my Windows domain and attempted to install IIS on it.

1st attempt failed, 2nd worked flawlessly... but IIS does not want to run.

Whenever I try to start the service I get the following error:

Does anyone here have any idea what this is caused by, and what I can do to fix this?

Answer 1

Please check if the Windows Process Activation Service is installed first.

Then use the following command to start the IIS service on Windows. Run this command using the Windows Command Prompt as administrator or execute it from the Run window.

c:/> ​​iisreset /restart