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How to get MSA user to work as an App Pool Identity? (Getting error 503)
The problem for the poster was the way that the account was used.
The correct syntax is:
domain\account$
The syntax of account$ is accepted by IIS, but may be used as a
local account.
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Moving inetpub from C to D
This security audit suggestion doesn't make much sense.
Moving a website elsewhere from inetpub is in itself a dangerous
operation regarding security, as a new folder would need to have exactly
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Moving inetpub from C to D
I don't see any security issue regarding the directory location.
The only thing that matters is the user account, under which the IIS service is running. See this answer for more details. TL;DR, it ...
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How to disable unlisted file name extensions but make the PHP app work?
When performing request filtering for allowed file types, the setup is pretty intuitive for applications/frameworks that expect request URLs to fully qualify the file extension. However the MS ...
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Can ApplicationPoolIdentity be used to read/write files from/to a folder over network?
The way your IIS server is currently set up is somewhat correct
in that a custom account is used as the pool identity,
but the permissions are excessive.
You should not take the easy route of adding ...
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What are OPTIONSVerbHandler and TRACEVerbHandler and StaticFile on IIS HandlerMappings?
What are OPTIONSVerbHandler, TRACEVerbHandler and StaticFile
They all define handlers for pages without URLs.
Source: IIS handler mappings
Can I remove these files from a specific website Handler ...
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Windows 11 IIS missing installed features
From an online search for that error message, the issue might be due to IIS URL ReWrite not recognizing the version number for Windows 11. This can be fixed with a Registry hack:
Press Win, type ...
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IIS on 2016 certificate generated by microsoft cetrification autortoity on AD not recognized
This is more than likely caused by the fact that you have only the CommonName (CN) field containing the FQDN of the IIS server. Modern browsers do not check the CN; instead they look for a DNS entry ...
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Wsus client getting error 403 (0x80244018)
I don't know what it was, but I installed the update manually on the clients and the issue is gone.
UPDATE:
The update installed was the march 2023 cumulative update (KB5023773)
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