401 Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials

I realize this is an older post but I had the same error on IIS 8.5. Hopefully this can help another experiencing the same issue (I didn’t see my issue outlined in other questions with a similar title).

Everything seemed set up correctly with the Application Pool Identity, but I continued to receive the error. After much digging, there is a setting for the anonymous user to use the credentials of the application pool identity or a specific user. For whatever reason, mine was defaulted to a specific user. Altering the setting to the App Pool Identity fixed the issue for me.

  1. IIS Manager → Sites → Website
  2. Double click “Authentication”
  3. Select Anonymous Authentication
  4. From the Actions panel, select Edit
  5. Select Application pool Identity and click ok

Hopefully this saves someone else some time!

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