Active Directory Update - Allow users to update their own Active Directory information

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Problem: Immediately after installing Directory Update v1.2 or later, you direct your web browser to the http://SERVER/directoryupdate URL and you receive the following message rather than the logon screen:


The page cannot be found

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
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Please try the following:
Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly. If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted. Click the Back button to try another link.
HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS).


This is a pretty typical error when using the Internet.  However, when pointing to a page that you KNOW is there, this should not be popping up.  The first reason that this might be happening is that you are just using the wrong URL. Confirm that the server portion of the URL is correct, such as http://intranet.company.local.  The default virtual directory is /DirectoryUpdate, but you might have changed this during installation.  Note also that when using Internet Information Server, URLs are NOT case sensitive. We just put in initial caps for readability.

There is another reason this may be happening. Even if the Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 is installed, it might be disabled in the IIS Web Service Extensions. Here is how you should check:

  1. Open up Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager console on the web server on which Directory Update is installed.

  2. Navigate to the Web Services Extensions container and confirm in the right pane that ASP.NET v2.0.50727 is Allowed.

  3. If it is not allowed, then highlight it and click the Allow button

  4. You may need to run iisreset at the command prompt to recycle all the IIS components.

 


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