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 is run under the context of

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 Vanilla version, as this is ‘slightly