Not sure whether this is too late for you. The IIS website is run by either USERS or IIS_IUSRS. Try to do following: From Windows Explorer Right click on the folder pointed by the web Go to security tab Add computername\IIS_IUSRS or computername\USERS with Read permission.
The ApplicationPoolIdentity under IIS 7+ is a local machine account named the same name as the application pool itself and resides under a special domain called IIS AppPool. For example given the application pool name MyAppPool your application pool identity user would be IIS AppPool\MyAppPool. You can learn more about how this works from this … Read more
Here is the Answer. Created a powershell script file AddUserToCertificate.ps1 Here is the content for script file. param( [string]$userName, [string]$permission, [string]$certStoreLocation, [string]$certThumbprint ); # check if certificate is already installed $certificateInstalled = Get-ChildItem cert:$certStoreLocation | Where thumbprint -eq $certThumbprint # download & install only if certificate is not already installed on machine if ($certificateInstalled -eq … Read more
You could use System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name to identify the Identity in which the current application is running. This link provides a nice utility which displays the identity under which the aspx is run.
Through Microsoft Support I found out that we ran into the issue described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB2545850. This only occurs when ApplicationPoolIdentity is used. It occurs very easily, namely, after the machine account password is changed (which by default happens automatically every 30 days), and then IIS is restarted (e.g., through iisreset). Note … Read more