Most of the time IIS(10) with classic ASP is working, but every so often I get a 500 error. There is not traffic on the server. It is only me hitting it.

This is what I have in the log:

... (looks all good)

ASP_QUEUE_REQUEST      0 ms

ASP_DEQUEUE_REQUEST      11672 ms

ASP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT     "Error"

...

It looks like ASP_DEQUEUE_REQUEST is somehow not getting the information from the ASP_QUEUE_REQUEST.

Is it a memory permission thing?

On a Windows 2008 Server in IIS 7.5 we have about 5 websites and using content management system tool i.e., Umbraco.

But we have one website that has nearer 15 bindings for various domains.

couple of months all our sites have started consuming high memory usage, however can you help to find site with multiple bindings will cause high CPU?

(I was using Chrome - I redid this in  IE)

I have this site in my Default Website Folder and outside the website Default Folder. When I try to browse to the site in my Default Folder it gives me this error.

Server Error in Application "application name" HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error HRESULT: 0x80070005

Description of HRESULT :The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

 It says * You are using IIS 7.0 on a computer that is running Windows Vista. Additionally, you configure the Web site to use UNC Passthrough authentication to access a remote Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share.

* The IIS_IUSRS group does not have the appropriate permissions for the ApplicationHost.config file or for the Web.config file.

To fix this:

 Method 1 Do not configure the Web site to use UNC Passthrough authentication to access the remote UNC share. Instead, specify a user account that has the appropriate permissions to access the remote UNC share.

Method 2 Grant the Read permission to the IIS_IUSRS group for the ApplicationHost.config file or for the Web.config file.

To do this, follow these steps: 1. In Windows Explorer, locate the ApplicationHost.config file that is associated with the Web site, or locate the Web.config file that is associated with the Web site. 2. Right-click the ApplicationHost.config file, or right-click the Web.config file. 3. Click Properties. 4. Click the Security tab, and then click Edit. 5. Click Add. 6. In the Enter the object names to select box, type computername\IIS_IUSRS, click Check Names, and then click OK.

Neither of these will work. There is no security tab in web.config file and when I try to change the Password Authentication by entering a User Name/Password - it tells me the Password is invalid.

I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I am attempting to turn on Remote Web Access in our SBS 2011 Server. When I run through the wizard, the wizard results back with 3 errors:

-First error is that UPnP is off on the router. The router is manually configured to pass 443 and 80 to the server so no real issue there.

-Second is that RWA is blocked. I don't believe it is because prior to turning on RWA I could get to the "Remote Web Access is turned off" site from my phone by navigating to the static IP from my ISP.

-The third error and the one that I am concerned about states: There is an error in your Web server settings - There is a problem with your Web server settings that cannot be repaired automatically. Please contact support.

Another issue which may be related is that when I attempt to setup the domain name using the wizard to obtain 'a personalized domain name from Microsoft', I get an error stating: An error occured while setting up your domain name - The domain name service was not set up for your server. Wait a few minutes and run the wizard again. An unexpected or unknown problem occured. Please wait a few minutes, and then try again.

Any help is greatly appreciated. This has been driving me nuts for a few weeks now.

Thanks

Hello All,

Wish You Happy New Year to All in advance.

I created a ASP.net WebAPI service application. I published it on Server 2008 R2 but I'm getting an error when i call site.

By the way , same build pack is working on an other Server 2008 R2.

 there is no different configuration setting between that two operating system, i checked its.  And all .net version is okey and updated.

I'm searching issue on internet , i found much more information about about event log 3008 but Exception type and Exception Message are different not like mine.

What is wrong ? 

Event code: 3008
Event message: A configuration error has occurred.
Event time: 31.12.2015 09:25:12
Event time (UTC): 31.12.2015 07:25:12
Event ID: 03d0578e740f41dc93276cc1ec01d333
Event sequence: 1
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0

Application information:
Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/4/ROOT-28-130960203063596353
Trust level: Full
Application Virtual Path: /
Application Path: C:\WebRoot\Applications\wky\app\
Machine name: TF2APPSRV1

Process information:
Process ID: 9820
Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name: IIS APPPOOL\TOFAS_wky_app

Exception information:
Exception type: ConfigurationErrorsException
Exception message: External component has thrown an exception.
at System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAssemblyHelper(String assemblyName, Boolean starDirective)
at System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAllAssembliesFromAppDomainBinDirectory()
at System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAssembly(AssemblyInfo ai)
at System.Web.Configuration.AssemblyInfo.get_AssemblyInternal()
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies(CompilationSection compConfig)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetPreStartInitMethodsFromReferencedAssemblies()
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CallPreStartInitMethods(String preStartInitListPath, Boolean& isRefAssemblyLoaded)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.ExecutePreAppStart()
at System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.Initialize(ApplicationManager appManager, IApplicationHost appHost, IConfigMapPathFactory configMapPathFactory, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters, PolicyLevel policyLevel, Exception appDomainCreationException)

External component has thrown an exception.
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAssemblyName(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly reqAssembly, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(String assemblyString)
at System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAssemblyHelper(String assemblyName, Boolean starDirective)

Request information:
Request URL: http://localhost:3340/
Request path: /
User host address: ::1
User:
Is authenticated: False
Authentication Type:
Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\TOFAS_wky_app

Thread information:
Thread ID: 114
Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\TOFAS_wky_app
Is impersonating: False
Stack trace: at System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAssemblyHelper(String assemblyName, Boolean starDirective)
at System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAllAssembliesFromAppDomainBinDirectory()
at System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAssembly(AssemblyInfo ai)
at System.Web.Configuration.AssemblyInfo.get_AssemblyInternal()
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies(CompilationSection compConfig)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetPreStartInitMethodsFromReferencedAssemblies()
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CallPreStartInitMethods(String preStartInitListPath, Boolean& isRefAssemblyLoaded)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.ExecutePreAppStart()
at System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.Initialize(ApplicationManager appManager, IApplicationHost appHost, IConfigMapPathFactory configMapPathFactory, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters, PolicyLevel policyLevel, Exception appDomainCreationException)

Hi,

We have a Windows 2012 Standard server that we use to test some of our applications.

We have used Application Initialization to keep the our applications available and use the splash screen as its only a few of us testing. 

However I now have a requirement to load some css and script bundles at startup time and want to use the initializationpage parameter in AI to do this but it does not appear to be working.

When I restart the app I get the splash screen when trying to access the app but the page defined in AI does not appear to be called. 

After trying various different things I decided to just use a simple app to test if the issue was with our app or AI as we have SSL and URL rewrite in use too. I have a similar app to the one used in this AI setup tutorial - appinit 

I I have just made a separate page that copies a file and writes to the log as the initializationpage and the app simply waits 20 seconds before is shows an image, very simple. There is not SSL nor URL rewrites involved with this. In fact its the only app we have defined on the server atm.

So when I start the app the splash screen shows until the times expires when it shows the image, as expected. However there are no log messages nor a new file created.

I ran the initialization page after this and messages and new file appear, so there are no issues with that page itself.

I have been through many articles etc about this and I think I have all the correct settings etc, listed below.

Does anyone have any ideas on what might be wrong or what I may have missed ?

Thanks, George.

OS : Windows 2012 Standard

IIS 8.0.9200.16384

ApplicationInitializationModule installed

Web.config 

<applicationInitialization remapManagedRequestsTo="splash.html" skipManagedModules="true" doAppInitAfterRestart="true" >
    <add initializationPage="WriteToLogPage.aspx" />
</applicationInitialization>

ApplicationHost.config

<applicationPools>
    <add name="appinit" autoStart="true" managedRuntimeVersion="v4.0" startMode="AlwaysRunning" />
        <applicationPoolDefaults managedRuntimeVersion="v4.0">
            <processModel identityType="ApplicationPoolIdentity" />
        </applicationPoolDefaults>
</applicationPools>

<site name="Default Web Site" id="1">

    <application path="/appinit" applicationPool="appinit" preloadEnabled="true">
        <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\appinit" />
    </application>
</site>

<globalModules>
    <add name="ApplicationInitializationModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\warmup.dll" />
</globalModules>

I've searched forums and have found similar issues in IIS 7 & 7.5 and the solution there was to install IIS 6 Compatibility component. I cannot find any mention of this component for IIS 8 and so am wondering: 1) does it exist in IIS 8 and if so 2) where do I find information about it?

My code is trying to run a classic ASP file to run some monthly reports and I us the following to get the path:

'--------------------------
      Function getPath (siteName)
      '--------------------------
         returnPath = ""
         Set IISOBJ = GetObject("IIS://LocalHost/W3SVC")
         For Each website in IISOBJ 
            If ( WebSite.Class = "IIsWebServer" ) Then 
               If (WebSite.ServerComment = siteName ) Then 
                  Set IISOBJRoot = getObject(WebSite.ADSPath & "/Root")
                  returnPath = IISOBJRoot.Path
                  set IISOBJRoot = Nothing
               End If
            End if
         Next
         set IISOBJ = Nothing
         getPath = returnPath
      End Function

It fails at GetObject() with an "invalid syntax" error.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks

Hi,

I am having some issues with the Application Initialization module as described in this post - http://forums.iis.net/t/1229643.aspx?Application+Initialization+module+not+requesting+initialization+page

I am wondering how I can trace to see exactly whats going on between IIS and the AI module to see if the "fake" request is being generated and recieved ?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks, George.

Hi,

My joomla  site have an hacker attack and when I try to restore a backUp ( or I cancel all my site and I leave only a symple index.html on the directory) inwww.mysite.com appear ISS7 error page.
 

But if I write www.mysite.com/index.php everything is OK.

The problem appear only if I try to navigate www.mysite.com.

Any Ideas?

Thak's

Hi,

i just want Two Factor Remember browser cookie session state not to clear when app pool recycle and for that i also tried to change my session state from InProc to SQL Server, but no luck. If i use SQL Server session state then my application manage to store ASPNet Session ID in the database table but not the Two Factor Remember Browser session.

i just want to understand, In case of Two Factor Remember Browser session state, where it store in the server and how can i prevent it from deletion when app pool recycle. is there any way i can store it permanently for a time period.

I am facing a weird issues where the ajax requests are getting stuck after 10 ajax request. After 5 -10 mins those request are received at server but due to timeout the response is not received at client side. This started happening after upgrading my machine from Win 8 to Win 10. 

I have tried following workarounds found at various forum related to Windows 10 upgrade issues with IIS. 

1. UrlRewrite 2.0

2. Changing the major version in regedit to 9, then installing URLRewrite 2.0 and then changing back the major version to 10. 

But nothing seems to happening. 

I have an MVC 4 application. 

Please help.

Please help.

We have a WCF web service that is accepting calls via JSON from iOS. Sporadically, we get a 400 Bad Request error. After searching for this error, the only solution that I could find is that the size limit was reached, but our calls are really small (like 50 characters small). This doesn't happen every time, usually only 40-50 times per day, but it's enough to cause some major problems. We turned on request tracing, but the XML doesn't give us much information to investigate. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Attached is one of the request log files.

Thanks is advance.

    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
     <System>
      <Provider Name="WWW Server" Guid="{3A2A4E84-4C21-4981-AE10-3FDA0D9B0F83}"/>
      <EventID>0</EventID>
      <Version>1</Version>
      <Level>4</Level>
      <Opcode>38</Opcode>
      <Keywords>0x0</Keywords>
      <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-01-14T13:46:41.851Z"/>
      <Correlation ActivityID="{00000000-0000-0000-A516-018000000058}"/>
      <Execution ProcessID="16572" ThreadID="17048"/>
      <Computer>DED2768</Computer>
     </System>
     <EventData>
      <Data Name="ContextId">{00000000-0000-0000-A516-018000000058}</Data>
      <Data Name="BytesReceived">50</Data>
      <Data Name="ErrorCode">0</Data>
     </EventData>
     <RenderingInfo Culture="en-US">
      <Opcode>GENERAL_READ_ENTITY_END</Opcode>
      <freb:Description Data="ErrorCode">The operation completed successfully.
     (0x0)</freb:Description>
     </RenderingInfo>
     <ExtendedTracingInfo xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/trace">
      <EventGuid>{D42CF7EF-DE92-473E-8B6C-621EA663113A}</EventGuid>
     </ExtendedTracingInfo>
    </Event>
    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
     <System>
      <Provider Name="WWW Server" Guid="{3A2A4E84-4C21-4981-AE10-3FDA0D9B0F83}"/>
      <EventID>0</EventID>
      <Version>1</Version>
      <Level>5</Level>
      <Opcode>51</Opcode>
      <Keywords>0x0</Keywords>
      <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-01-14T13:46:41.851Z"/>
      <Correlation ActivityID="{00000000-0000-0000-A516-018000000058}"/>
      <Execution ProcessID="16572" ThreadID="17048"/>
      <Computer>DED2768</Computer>
     </System>
     <EventData>
      <Data Name="ContextId">{00000000-0000-0000-A516-018000000058}</Data>
      <Data Name="Buffer">{&quot;hub&quot;:&quot;(null)&quot;, &quot;co&quot;:&quot;OCALFLXA&quot;, &quot;eci&quot;:&quot;CNUCAJP&quot;}</Data>
     </EventData>
     <RenderingInfo Culture="en-US">
      <Opcode>GENERAL_REQUEST_ENTITY</Opcode>
     </RenderingInfo>
     <ExtendedTracingInfo xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/trace">
      <EventGuid>{D42CF7EF-DE92-473E-8B6C-621EA663113A}</EventGuid>
     </ExtendedTracingInfo>
    </Event>
    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
     <System>
      <Provider Name="ASPNET" Guid="{AFF081FE-0247-4275-9C4E-021F3DC1DA35}"/>
      <EventID>0</EventID>
      <Version>0</Version>
      <Level>5</Level>
      <Opcode>11</Opcode>
      <Keywords>0x2</Keywords>
      <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-01-14T13:47:10.228Z"/>
      <Correlation ActivityID="{00000000-0000-0000-A516-018000000058}"/>
      <Execution ProcessID="16572" ThreadID="17048"/>
      <Computer>DED2768</Computer>
     </System>
     <EventData>
      <Data Name="ConnID">0</Data>
      <Data Name="Context ID">{00000000-0000-0000-A516-018000000058}</Data>
      <Data Name="Data1">System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule</Data>
     </EventData>
     <RenderingInfo Culture="en-US">
      <Opcode>AspNetPipelineLeave</Opcode>
      <Keywords>
       <Keyword>Module</Keyword>
      </Keywords>
     </RenderingInfo>
     <ExtendedTracingInfo xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/trace">
      <EventGuid>{06A01367-79D3-4594-8EB3-C721603C4679}</EventGuid>
     </ExtendedTracingInfo>
    </Event>
    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
     <System>
      <Provider Name="WWW Server" Guid="{3A2A4E84-4C21-4981-AE10-3FDA0D9B0F83}"/>
      <EventID>0</EventID>
      <Version>1</Version>
      <Level>3</Level>
      <Opcode>16</Opcode>
      <Keywords>0x100</Keywords>
      <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-01-14T13:47:10.228Z"/>
      <Correlation ActivityID="{00000000-0000-0000-A516-018000000058}"/>
      <Execution ProcessID="16572" ThreadID="17048"/>
      <Computer>DED2768</Computer>
     </System>
     <EventData>
      <Data Name="ContextId">{00000000-0000-0000-A516-018000000058}</Data>
      <Data Name="ModuleName">ServiceModel</Data>
      <Data Name="Notification">2</Data>
      <Data Name="HttpStatus">400</Data>
      <Data Name="HttpReason">Bad Request</Data>
      <Data Name="HttpSubStatus">0</Data>
      <Data Name="ErrorCode">0</Data>
      <Data Name="ConfigExceptionInfo"></Data>
     </EventData>
     <RenderingInfo Culture="en-US">
      <Opcode>MODULE_SET_RESPONSE_ERROR_STATUS</Opcode>
      <Keywords>
       <Keyword>RequestNotifications</Keyword>
      </Keywords>
      <freb:Description Data="Notification">AUTHENTICATE_REQUEST</freb:Description>
      <freb:Description Data="ErrorCode">The operation completed successfully.
     (0x0)</freb:Description>
     </RenderingInfo>
     <ExtendedTracingInfo xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/trace">
      <EventGuid>{002E91E3-E7AE-44AB-8E07-99230FFA6ADE}</EventGuid>
     </ExtendedTracingInfo>
    </Event>

hi there starting a new project on windows 10 machine.

when going to file:///C:/inetpub/wwwroot/priority/abc.htm in my broweser it shows ok but when going tohttp://zoom.complus.co/priority/abc.htm got error

Detailed Error

Information: Module IIS Web Core

Notification BeginRequest

Handler Not yet determined

Error Code 0x80070021

Config Error Lock violation

Config File \?\C:\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config

Requested URL https://zoom.complus.co:443/

Physical Path C:\inetpub\wwwroot

Logon Method Not yet determined

Logon User Not yet determined

can someone tell me what to do please

I am having an issue with FTP on a 2008 R2 Standard server running IIS 7. The admin that worked here before me would literally reboot the server every time a developer would have issues with the FTP service. I am trying to find out the root cause of the issue to find a long term solution. This is what is happening:

About once a week the server will start rejecting FTP connection attempts. with error "A connection to the server could not be established". When this happens I also cannot log in via FTP locally on the machine itself. I then open the Server Manager and look in Web Services to see that the FTPSVC is in the "stopping state". To stop the process I have to manually terminate the svchost.exe associated with the ftpsvc. After the process is terminated I can see that the ftpsvc process start again, but FTP connections are still broken.

I then used Debug Diag and ran a Full User Dump on the svchost.exe process for ftpsvc and received some Warnings. The problem is that I do not fully understand what the report says. I am hoping someone will be able to look at this and let me know what next steps I should take.

This thread is waiting on the local RpcSs service to complete a COM activation request inanother COM server process.

Analysis Summary

CrashHangAnalysis

Report for svchost.exe__PID__3284__Date__01_17_2016__Time_06_39_08PM__439__Manual Dump.dmp

Top 5 Threads by CPU time

CLR Information

Thread Report

• Thread 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14

Thread 9 - System ID 9768

Thread 10 - System ID 11868

Thread 11 - System ID 10648

Thread 12 - System ID 21820

Thread 13 - System ID 22092

Thread 14 - System ID 4308

• Thread 1
• 17

Thread 1 - System ID 9000

Thread 17 - System ID 9116

• Thread 15
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Thread 15 - System ID 8988

Thread 16 - System ID 1308

Thread 0 - System ID 10976

Thread 2 - System ID 10840

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Thread 5 - System ID 21864

Thread 6 - System ID 6428

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Thread 8 - System ID 7224

we currently have multiple IIS servers (virtual) making use of a shared config via dfsr. the shared config is the only thing in this particular replication group.

recently our IIS servers cpu process have been going to 100% when adding application pools and virtual directory.

currently their are approx 700+ app pools  the server its self is fine at all other times. 
specs: dual E5520 2.27ghz
Ram: dynamic min 60GB up to 120gb
dual 56gbe infiniband cards network average network usage 5mb
server 2012

curious if their is some sort of max app pools or something in iis. or if their is a setting somewhere that im missing.

i try this:

- open: Control Panel

- click on: Program and Features

- click on: Turn Windows Features On or Off

- check: Internet Information Services

After few seconds - show window with this messages:

"Windows couldn't complete the requested changes."

"Windows requires a reboot to return the system to its original state."

After click on button "Reboot" or "Don't reboot" -  show window with this message:

"An error had occured. Not all of the features were successfully changed."

How can i install IIS ?

Hello,

For a few days we are having the strangest issue with IIS8.5, running in WS2012R2. IIS is not applying any configuration changes I do in the Logging feature (the standard one), it keeps recording the logs as before without taking into account any change.

I have enabled "One log per Server", W3C format, directory, a new set of fields etc... on theroot of the web server. Logging is not delegated (in Feature Delegation), and in "Default web site" it reads "This server has been configured to log requests to one log file per server...". 

After the change, I do an iisreset, and I even rebooted the server. However logs are saved one per site, instead of per server as selected; and the fields I added are not shown in the logs (normal fields, not custom).

Do you have any idea why this could happen?

thanks a lot in advance, I'm getting a bit desperate

ps: permissions on the logging folder are correct

I have everything switched to try and analyse a 500 error.

The generated XML is almost 3000 lines long.

IE does't seem to know how to parse the XML into a friendly format and neither does chrome. I tried a few online XML GUIs but they are no good either.

How can I view a friendly version of this file?

Hello guys!

I am having a strugle with ftp. I can't using it with my public ip. I have this message when I with NAT tried to save the port forwarding.

Should I use my public ip here in "server Ip address"? I tried, didnt work either.

I had one more field called "remote host", i didnt enter nothing there, or I shall?

You can see that there

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The main issue is that I am trying to implement Application Initialization to our MVC application and have been having a problem actually getting the AI module to request the initializationPage defined in the web.config.

I finally stumbled across an article that basically states to enable Anonymous Authentication which actually worked but we dont want that enables at the application level. See the article here

As suggested I created a small initialization page to have the Anon Auth enabled on and have it disabled at the application level.

Unfortunately, I keep getting a 401.2 error in this scenario.

So my relatively simple question is whats the best way to find out the account Id being used by IIS Anonymous Auth requests ? (I do realise you can set the Credentials in IIS which I have set to the default IUSR but I have given full permissions to this at the app and init page level, just in case.)

Also I tried a wee Web Forms app that has an init page that works just with Anon Auth enabled on the page level.

Any help or suggestions would be most welcome, on any of the above issues.