I have been trying for days to get IIS 7 to un-install. The current installation is corrupt, or at least it behaves that way. I must have browsed at least two dozen suggestions including those posted in the Microsoft Technet Forum. I have tried everything suggested and it still won't un-install. It appears to work but just continues to reboot and reverts back to the original, corrupt configuration. I don't recall other versions of Windows server having this kind of fatal flaw. I noted from some posts that there is some kind of bug with IIS 7 and the Windows Process Activation Service but I saw no fix for it. It just amazes me that Windows server 2008 will not, and seemingly never will, allow us to un-install IIS 7. They really missed the mark with this operating system.
At this point we are reconsidering our decision to use Windows Server 2008 for this project. We need a reliable server.
Can any-one suggest a different operating system that does not have this problem and can reliably run IIS 7?