Some time ago Peter Loft Jensen wrote about how to easily give a user account the neccessary permissions to access the IIS metabase & required directories, and thus be used for running the IIS process. We're running all x64 servers, but our IIS is running in 32 bit mode due to some non-x64 compatible 3rd party libraries. Usually this means we have to use the Framework\version\aspnet_regiis.exe bin instead of the Framework64 version - otherwise it might interfere with our 32 bit IIS settings. Doing that resulted in the following error: C:\WINDOWS\microsoft.net\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -ga [domain]\[user] Start granting [domain]\[user] access to...