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IIS application using application pool identity loses primary token?

(This is a question about a vague problem. I try to present all relevant data, in the hope that someone has helpful information; apologies for the long description.) Our web app We have a .NET 4 web application running in IIS 7.5 accessing Active…
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Get the Application Pool Identity programmatically

How do I get the identity of an appPool programmatically in C#? I want the application pool user and NOT the user who is currently logged in.
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How to Grant permission to user on Certificate private key using powershell?

Certificate is already installed on machine. Now I want to give read permission on PrivateKey of Certificate to application user.
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Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions

I am trying to test my Web Service on an IIS instance on my local machine before I promote to a windows server 2008 environment. I get this when I attempt to browse to the service. I have created a custom application pool that this service will…
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IIS how to determine ApplicationPoolIdentity account?

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard ( Microsoft Windows Server Version 6.1 Build 7601: Service Pack 1 ) IIS 7.5.7600.16385 In IIS Manager for a Site assigned an ApplicationPool with Identity = ApplicationPoolIdentity ( the default setting ) , how to…
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IIS 7.5 application pool uses wrong %APPDATA% for custom user as identity

I want my MVC3 web application to access %APPDATA% (e.g. C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Roaming on Windows 7) because I store configuration files there. Therefore I created an application pool in IIS with the identity of the user "MyUsername", created…
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Difference between connect as and application pool identity

In IIS 7.5 there is a "Connect as" option under basic settings, for the application. What is this? Why was this feature introduced? Will it override the application pool identity or the other way around?
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Delete Windows user created by IIS ApplicationPoolIdentity?

I was having problems booting into my user profile in Windows 10 and was able to fix this by setting RefCount to 0 for my user profile in this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-xxx I…
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IIS AppPool to SQL Server permissions (adding NT AUTHORITY\IUSR)

I've got a new server build running Windows Server 2012 R2, IIS 8.5 (inc. ClassicASP feature) and SQL Server 2014 Express. I want to use Application Pool Identity to connect to the database. The database is set to "Windows Authentication Mode". My…
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'DefaultAppPool' is being automatically disabled due to a series of failures

Having a tough time with this issue. Not sure how but my ApplicationPoolIdentity is broken. Currently I'm running IIS 8 on Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2012. When trying to debug an application from Visual Studio, or just navigating to the site in a…
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Running command from ASP.NET App Pool Identity

I am running an executable process from my ASP.NET application when a user clicks a button. This process creates several files and serves them up to the end-user. I can't really see what the process is or isn't doing, but it didn't work until I…
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Programmatically assigning IIS Application Pool Identity "users" to Groups

The Problem: When new IIS Application Pools are created and set to use the Application Pool Identity for permissions, I am unsure how to add those identities to User Groups such as Administrator or Performance Counter Users. The Background: I'm…
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DirectoryServicesCOMException 80072020 From IIS 7.5 Site Running Under ApplicationPoolIdentity

I'm having trouble hunting down an issue where an ASP.NET 4 application fails while trying to get user groups for a given user from time to time. The application pool associated with this application is setup to run under…
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IIS Manager Freezes when trying to list App Pools or Sites

I have just updated the password against an application pool identity for my user in IIS to bring it up to date, as per: HTTP Error 503, the service is unavailable However now when I run IIS Manager it freezes when I try to list the application…
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trying to give permissions to specific app pool identity in IIS 7.5 - "object cannot be found"

Usually, I give access rights to folder based on the app pool identity, in the format of: IIS AppPool\[app_pool_name] On this particular new server, when I try to edit the security settings of a folder, and add that particular user entry, I am…
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