after moving the asp.net app from IIS 6 to IIS 7 on windows server 2008 R2 IIS 7 is not allowing to save the doc/execl files locally

Question

we have recently moved one of our ASP.Net app from IIS 6 windows server 2003 to IIS 7 windows server 2008 R2. when the application was in IIS 6 we were able to bowose that and able to save the doc/excel files locally. But after moving that to IIS 7 on windows server 2008 R2 we can browse that app but not able to save the doc/execl locally.

could anyone please help me on this.

Thanks and Regards,

krishnamurthy

Answer 1

You need to check which user the application pool for your site is running as. This could be:

ApplicationPoolIdentity , NetworkService or another specified user.

If you change the app pool to use NetworkService you will then be able to assign security permissions on your directory allowing NetworkService read / modify permissions.

See this link for more information: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771170(v=ws.10).aspx