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IIS Will not load website under the Sites in the left hand panel

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Short Desc

IIS may not load the sites in the left-hand panel
Article Details

In IIS, you may encounter that [Sites] in the left-hand panel are not expanding the websites in Tree View. However, when you click on Sites, you will see all the available sites in [Features View]
Recreate Issue

Restoring a backup on the IIS Config can cause this.
Enabled Shared Config can be another contributing factor to this happening.
Resolve Issue

Open Services and restart [Web Management Services]
The following are three ways to open Services

Right-Click on the [Start Menu]
Click Run
Type or paste in services.msc
Click OK

Right-Click on the [Start Menu]
Choose [Computer Management]
When it loads.
Click [Services and Applications]
Click [Services]

Open [Windows Explorer]
In the address bar, type in [Control Panel]
Click on [Administrator Tools]
Open [Services]

(I have a shortcut in my Taskbar for Services. To add it, once Services is open.
From the Taskbar, right-click its icon and choose [Pin to Taskbar])

After performing either of the following, click the [W] key
This will move you down to the W's in the list.
Right-click on [Web Management Services]
Choose Restart.

Next, inside IIS.
Right-click on the Server Name, and choose [Refresh]

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