iisreset error on windows 10

Question

I have recently upgraded my desktop from Windows 7 to Windows 10

However when I run iisrest from an administrator console, I am getting the following error:

Restart attempt failed. The IIS Admin Service or the World Wide Web Publishing Service, or a service dependent on them failed to start. The service, or dependent services, may had an error during its startup or may be disabled.

I initially checked my services, and there is no longer the IIS Admin service. I then checked the windows features, and as per nearly every article on the web that discusses installing IIS, I have selected Internet Information Services.

I have checked and the web service has restarted, Is this a new feature of Windows10 that the IIS Admin service is no longer required. Is there an additional step that I need to do that will install the service

Or is this now an issue with IISReset and I can ignore the error.

I have also tested this on a freshly installed Windows 10 box, and running IISReset gives the same error, and once again have verified via Windows features that IIS is installed

I can access website locally with no problems either

Answer 1

After @Zam recommended looking in the event log, and poking around a lot, the issue was that services "Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service", "Net.Tcp Listener Adapter" on my machine are disabled by default.

After starting these services, and changing the Startup Type to "Automatic (Delayed Start)", iisreset no longer gives me error

Answer 2

After executing iisreset /start and facing the described failure, just execute iisreset /status to see the list of services to which IIS is dependent and which ones are stile stopped. In Windows 10 this stopped service is usually "Net.Msmq Listener Adapter (NetMsmqActivator)" and if you try to start it, you will encounter the following error:

Because it is dependent on a service called "Microsoft Messaging Queue (MSMQ)" which is not installed by default in Windows 10. Just follow these steps to install it:

1. in the Run command window type appwiz.cpl to open "Programs and Features" item from the Control Panel
2. in the "Programs and Features" select "Turn Windows features on or off" in the top left corner
3. in the "Windows Features" scroll down to see "Microsoft Messaging Queue (MSMQ) Server" and select it (it doesn't need to be selected completely)
4. restart the computer

Now, if you execute iisreset /start it will be executed with no problem.