CRM 4 – HTTP Error 500.23 – An ASP.NET httpHandlers configuration does not apply in Managed Pipeline mode.

I wrote a web service in visual studio 2010, which uses some functionality in .NET 4.  I have been trying to enable this on the same server as the CRM 4 version.   This has created a world of pain for me.

The first thing I had to do was swap the CRM dll’s form 32 bit to 64, which you can find in the SDK.

I then had to remove practically everything from the web.config (which I wasn’t using anyway) as all the stuff it puts by default wasn’t causing errors.

I then got the error above in my main CRM website.  I think the reason for this was I initially tried to install the webservice within CRM.

Which I resolved by doing the below, which I found on this forum discussion

1. Open Server Manager
2. Select Roles>Web Server (IIS)>IIS Manager>Select the Server>Applocation Pools
3. Select the appPool that your asp.net app is running under>Click on ‘Advanced Settings’ from the right hand pane.
4. Under Advanced Settings>General>Managed Pipeline Mode, select “Classic”
5. Recycle app pool and test your app.

Here are a couple of links with more information

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731755(WS.10).aspx

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/244/how-to-take-advantage-of-the-iis7-integrated-pipeline/