IIS

One of the most common issues i see developers having with running websites on IIS7 – 8 is permissions. When IIS7 was made available it introduced the concept of an ‘Application Pool Identity’, which effectively means that the host process for your site in IIS

When setting up a new Application Pool in IIS7 the default user (or identity) is ApplicationPoolIdentity which is a specific user account with minimal rights, created specifically for that application pool to run under the context of that user. In Windows Server 2008 (the