application pools

Changing the Application Pool Identity with Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7

Submitted by Ben Hodson on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 13:59

By default, application pools (including the default app pool) in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 use the "Network Service" account as their security identity. For most cases, this default identity should work well for most ASP.NET applications. But in some cases, you may need to configure custom security rules or you may want to isolate your process under its own lower privileged account. In addition, there may be cases where you need to find out what account your ASP.NET process is currently running under in IIS.