Issue provisioning IIS 7.5 server using Web Farm Framework 2

Solution 1:

I managed to get around the issue by updating the ignore list in c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\conf\applicationHost.config on the web farm controller. I updated the web farm section to skip the provision of the appPool and logFiles folders, this seems to have fixed the issue for me.

<webFarm>
    <applicationProvision offlineWhileSync="true" syncWebServerFromPrimary="true" periodicSync="00:00:30">
        <clear />
        <skipDirectives>                   
            <skip name="appPools" skipDirective="objectName=dirPath,absolutePath=.*appPools.*" />
            <skip name="logFiles" skipDirective="objectName=dirPath,absolutePath=.*LogFiles.*" />
        </skipDirectives>
    </applicationProvision>
</webFarm>