Microsoft shares script to restore inetpub folder you shouldn’t delete

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to help restore an empty 'inetpub' folder created by the April 2025 Windows security updates if deleted. As Microsoft previously warned, this folder helps mitigate a high-severity Windows Process Activation privilege escalation vulnerability.

In April, after installing the new security updates, Windows users suddenly found that an empty C:\Inetpub folder was created. As this folder is associated with Microsoft's Internet Information Server, users found it confusing that it was created when the web server was not installed.

This caused some people to remove the folder, making them vulnerable again to the patched vulnerability. Microsoft said that users who removed it can manually recreate it by installing Internet Information Services from th