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In the vein of this question.

Other questions have touched on this, but let's get a complete answer down:

  1. What specific permissions are necessary for a generic IIS 7 site with a domain user as the app pool identity?

  2. What specific permissions are necessary for an ASP.NET IIS 7 site with a domain user as the app pool identity?

  3. Are there any tricks/shortcuts to applying these permissions?

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If you set your website's anonymous authentication settings to use the app pool identity then you only need to grant the app pool identity access, unless you have a section of the site that doesn't use anonymous authentication, in which case you need to also grant the authenticated users access. I recommend that configuration. It's refreshing to not have to manage an app pool identity account plus an anonymous account.

If you aren't writing to disk, just list/read is all that is needed. If you need to write anything to disk then you'll need to grant write permissions too.

For #3, if it's just 1 server, you can do it from IIS Manager and NTFS permissions. If you plan to script this for multiple servers, let us know and we can provide further details.

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  • Thanks for the answer Scott. Are you saying that all you have to do for IIS 7 is add the user as the APP Pool ID? There's no "Logon as service" or similar requirements? Granting it access to the metabase or anything else that aspnet_regiis -ga does for IIS 6?
    – sh-beta
    Jan 8, 2010 at 19:52
  • Nope, not anymore. With IIS6 you had to add to the IIS_WPG group, which took care of all of those permissions, but with IIS7, the identity user is automatically added to the IIS_WPG group in real-time. So, just add the user to the app pool settings, grant it access to disk and you'll be set. Jan 9, 2010 at 16:09
  • @Scott Forsyth: I did that (created a user, even added it to IIS_USERS, gave permissions on the folder, and set the app pool), and I'm getting security exceptions. When I set the app-pool to NetworkService everything works, but I want each of the sites hosted on the server with an isolated user account. Any idea? IIS7.5 btw
    – Ken Egozi
    May 10, 2010 at 15:29
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    Ken, the best isolation is to give each site their own app pool, then grant permissions for the app pool. If you use ApplicationPoolIdentity, you can assign the app pool permissions on disk. The user looks like this: IIS AppPool\{apppool name}. learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities. May 13, 2010 at 3:12
  • The identity of application pool APP is invalid. The user name or password that is specified for the identity may be incorrect, or the user may not have batch logon rights. If the identity is not corrected, the application pool will be disabled when the application pool receives its first request. If batch logon rights are causing the problem, the identity in the IIS configuration store must be changed after rights have been granted before Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) can retry the logon...
    – Triynko
    Jan 27, 2011 at 17:20

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