winhttpcertcfg giving access to IIS user in Windows 7

Question

I need to give access to the IIS user to a pfx certificate. The website is running under the App Pool under some user AppPoolUser. IIS automatically has the user name \"IIS

Answer 1

To the original post, you just need to replace the domain "IIS APPPool" with your machine's local domain name - usually the same name as the machine. When WinHttpCertCfg runs, it will turn \ into \" and grant access to the certficate. If you want to work on a dev desktop with local IIS, this should solve your problem. ICACLS only works on servers (which you will ultimately be deploying to).