The system is SBS 2011 Standard SP1
End users reported not being able to log onto OWA from remote machines
tested localhost to connect and IIS also appears down
event viewer windows logs system has a large number of event 5189, WAS errors
The Windows Process Activation Service failed to generate an application pool config file for application pool 'SBS Web Workplace AppPool'. The error type is '4'. To resolve this issue, please ensure that the applicationhost.config file is correct and recommit the last configuration changes made. The data field contains the error number.
Event viewer Application logs also have
Event 2307, IIS-W3SVC-VP
The worker process for application pool 'SBS Web Workplace AppPool' encountered an error 'Cannot read configuration file
' trying to read configuration data from file '\\?\<EMPTY>', line number '0'. The data field contains the error code.
Also when loading IIS manager the program hangs whenever sites is selected
Attempted to fix with restarting Services:
IIS Admin Service
Application Host Helper Service
World Wide Web Publishing Services to no avail
World Wide Web Publishing Services no longer will restart with error 1068: The Dependency service or group failed to start
Any ideas most appreciated
Adam Graham