Intellitrace: IIS could not be found on the machine

Question

OK. Here's what I am running:

• Intellitrace Collector (powershell 2.0, from VS 2012)
• Windows Server 2003, running IIS 6
• The target application to be traced is a web service (asmx, ASP.NET 2.0.50727)

Here's what I've done & what happened:

cmdlet Start-IntelliTraceCollection at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
OutputPath: logs
Start-IntelliTraceCollection : An error occurred during website instrumentation
: Internet Information Services could not be found on the machine.
At line:1 char:29
+ Start-IntelliTraceCollection <<<<  MyAppPool .\collection_plan.ASP.NE
T.trace.xml
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Start-IntelliTraceCollection]
   , IISLegacyVersionException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.VisualStudio.Enterprise.WebInstrument.
   IISLegacyVersionException,Microsoft.VisualStudio.IntelliTrace.PowerShell.S
  tartIntelliTraceCollectionCommand

I tried running powershell as administrator - it didn't help (same error message)

Am I missing something here ?

Is any of the components I mentioned not supported ? ie: version of IIS, version of Windows Server ? I am suspicious that the IIS version isn't supported (IISLegacyVersionException was raised)

Much appreciated for your time + attention.

Cheers.

Answer 1

This Microsoft page on collecting IntelliTrace data from IIS using the standalone collector using VS2012 mentions

ASP.NET Web apps hosted on Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0, 7.5, and 8.0

as a requirement, so you're right, IIS6 is not supported.