Use Domain Account For Application Pool

Look in your application pool settings and see if the pool you re having trouble with is using a domain account i ve attached a screenshot of an example with the domain account highlighted in green.

Use domain account for application pool. When deploying an asp net application which is using windows authentication i was able to login using firefox whereas internet explorer it returned a 401 response code. Server is win 2k3 with iis 6 and is in the domain application pool is running under a domain user identity. Open the active directory users and computers link from administrative tools. I created a new application pool in iis and assigned my own windows domain account to it as the identity.

A user account that is used by application pools or services must have permissions of a domain user account and must not be a member of the farm administrators group or a member of the administrators group on the local computer. Then i assign this application pool to a web site. Assign the service account as identity of the application pool s in iis web grant folder permissions for the service account on two folders web configure user rights assignment to the service account domain and or web creating a domain service account. Windows authentication is the only way to.

If you use advance installation and will have multiple web frontend servers i would suggest to use domain account. I had added my own windows domain account into the iis wpg group and also administrators group. If you use typical installation sharepoint 80 web site in iis will be created and network service account will be used as application pool account by default. This web site will call some avaya components exe dll and return something.

You can change which user account is being used by right clicking application pool advanced settings under identity you can click the and look for a different user account.