I got this exception when setting up an old website on a new 64-bit Windows Server. The system was using an old Access database for keeping statistics information, which did not seem to like the new environment.
As I did not have Microsoft Office installed on the server I had to download the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components from the Microsoft website. After installing this I was hoping that the exception would go away, but it turned out that the driver does not exist for 64-bit systems.
By going into the Advanced Settings on the Application Pool in the IIS 7 and setting Enable 32-bit applications to true, I was able to access the statistics data again.
