Trending issue: “Cannot read configuration file because it exceeds the maximum file size” on SharePoint Server 2013
After installation of recent updates for SharePoint 2013 users may receive an HTTP 500 error with the following additional details: “Cannot read configuration file because it exceeds the maximum file size” Cause IIS has a default limit of 250 KB for web.config files. SharePoint web.config files are quite large even if no customizations are installed. […]