HttpContext.Current.User is null even though Windows Authentication is on

Question

In IIS7 under Windows Server 2008, I have a virtual directory with anonymous access off and Windows authentication on. In my web.config, I have:

Answer 1

II7 has integrated authentication. You can set it back to the old type by changing the Application Pool back to classical in the basic settings in IIS.

*Caution this is just an explanation and example, you may want to use the integrated authentication and do something different.