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Question

I have a web project (C# Asp.Net, EF 4, MS SQL 2008 and IIS 7) and I need to migrate it to IIS 7 locally (at the moment works fine with CASSINI).

Locally in IIS I ha

Answer 1

I hate the ApplicationPoolIdentity. I always set a Windows User Account as the account on AppPools.

As adrift says, it does sound like a database security issue. So create an NT user account, assign it to the ASP.NET v4.0 AppPool and then grant it permission on the website folder and to the relevant table(s) in SQL.