Errors with WSS 2.0
After installing WSS 2.0 on my system, everything seemed to work fine except Web Parts. None of them would display. The error message was:
Web Part Error: This page has encountered a critical error. Contact your system administrator if this problem persists.
Searching through IIS logs didn't tell me anything. Looking online, I found a few newsgroup articles, and some forum posts about this error. On one forum, it said something about using ASP.NET v1.1 instead of ASP.NET v2.0. I only had the web service extension for 2.0 available, so I needed to go on a hunt for how to install the web service extension for 1.1. This was also fun because I didn't know what I was looking for at the time. But then I found this command on MSDN:
"%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\version\aspnet_regiis.exe" -i
Fill in version with 1.1.xxxyyy and things almost magically work. After I did that, I needed to go in and change the version of ASP.NET that was used for WSS, then everything was dandy.As a side note, there are apparently a good number of options to aspnet_regiis.exe that are useful. This
page has all the gritty details.