Cannot serve WCF services in IIS on Windows 8

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Seemed to be a no brainer; the WCF service should be enabled using Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off in the Control Panel. Go to .NET Framework Advanced Services -> WCF Services and enable HTTP Activation as described in this blog post on mdsn.

From the command prompt (as admin), you can run:

C:\> DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:WCF-HTTP-Activation
C:\> DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:WCF-HTTP-Activation45

If you get an error then use the below

C:\> DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /all /FeatureName:WCF-HTTP-Activation
C:\> DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /all /FeatureName:WCF-HTTP-Activation45

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