ASP.Net error: “The identity of application pool is invalid”

Question

My ASP.Net web service cannot run because the application pool is unable to start due to the identity crisis it\'s experiencing.

The user I\'m using in the app pool is a

Answer 1

Do you have a group policy somewehere that is pulling the account out of the iis_wpg group? We have this (or a similar) problem frequently when, for whatever reason, a worker process or a service needs to run under a custom account.