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w3wp service missing from Debugging process list in D365 F&O VHD

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Posted on by Rhushikesh R 758

hi everyone,

Recently I upgraded one VHD from PU36 to PU37.

But after upgrading I cannot see w3wp service in the attach to process list.

I tried below options,

1. restarted IIS

2. ensured w3wp and w3c logging services running in services.msc

3. Marked checkbox of Show processes from all users

But I had no luck. Is it because of I am using missing some updates of Visual Studio and I must upgrade Visual Studio to 2017.

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Please help.

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    Gunjan Bhattachayya Profile Picture
    Gunjan Bhattachayya 35,423 on at

    Hi Rhushikesh,

    Are you running the application in a browser? If not, can you log into D365 F&O and try attaching the debugger to the process?

  • vinitgoyal2005 Profile Picture
    vinitgoyal2005 6,332 on at

    Hi,

    Check if IISExpress is being used? If it is then you need to attache debugger to IISExpress.exe rather than w3wp.

  • Rhushikesh R Profile Picture
    Rhushikesh R 758 on at

    Hi Gunjan,

    You are great. I haven't imagined this would be as easier as you told. Thanks a lot :) I can see the process now.

  • Joris dG Profile Picture
    Joris dG 17,775 on at

    Unless you're using a demo environment, you should be debugging IISExpress. Visual Studio shuts down IIS for you and works with IISExpress. If you manually start up IIS because VS shut it down, you'll likely have all sorts of weird problems with file locks or errors in VS.

    Just use IISExpress, when in Visual Studio. DO NOT start or stop IIS manually.

    Only Demo VM doesn't use IISExpress.

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