Unable to find assembly 'C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll'

[jasonchowbasyspro]

Description

I have installed the awsebcli@latest using pip. When attempting to verify installation by running eb --version the command throws an exception (below). I found the previous bug report for this in version 3.23 and the related release notes, but the behavior is still occurring in my case.

Steps to reproduce

pip install awsebcli==3.25
eb --version --debug

Observed result

PS C:\Users...> eb --version --debug
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "", line 88, in run_code
File "C:\Users\JasonChow\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\Scripts\eb.exe_main.py", line 4, in
File "C:\Users\JasonChow\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\ebcli\core\ebcore.py", line 35, in
from ebcli.controllers.migrate import MigrateController, MigrateExploreController, MigrateCleanupController
File "C:\Users\JasonChow\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\ebcli\controllers\migrate.py", line 35, in
clr.AddReference(r"C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll")
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Unable to find assembly 'C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll'.
at Python.Runtime.CLRModule.AddReference(String name)

Expected result

EB CLI 3.25.0 ...

Additional environment details (Ex: Windows, Mac, Amazon Linux etc)

OS: Windows 11 Enterprise
OS Build Version: 10.0.26100
Python version: 3.12.9
Pip version: 24.3.1

partial output of pip list

Package            Version
------------------ -----------
ansicon            1.89.0
awsebcli           3.25
bcrypt             4.3.0