How do I restore the IUSR account used by IIS 6

Question

We mirrored one of our webservers and thus got an IUSR account that was named after the wrong server IUSR-SERVER1 when this server's name is SERVER2. So I went an renamed the user to IUSR_SERVER2, but after resetting IIS it kept creating the old IUSR-SERVER1 account. Turns out this a feature, so I went through the websites in IIS and changed the IUSR that they use to IUSR-SERVER2 then deleted IUSR-SERVER1, and this time it stayed deleted. Then I accidentally deleted IUSR-SERVER2 so I reset IIS hoping it would be automatically created. Unfortunately this did not occur. Thus I was forced to create a new user and give a password. This made the website work but now there is a password associated with the IUSR, is there any other way to create an IUSR so everything is the same as before?

Answer 1

You can set the IUSR Password using the following command:

C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/anonymoususerpass “P@ssword”

You then need to sync it with this command:

C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>cscript.exe synciwam.vbs -v