How to script moving a website username\/password from web.config to an app pool is pretty easy if you have the correct syntax.<\/p>\n
First, you need to use a tool called appcmd. that is located and must be ran from the following location:<\/p>\n
c:\\windows\\system32\\inetsrv<\/p>\n
Before you make the change, this process updates the applicationHost.config file AND the web.config in the website directory so ALWAYS make a backup.<\/p>\n
Simply copy the file called applicationHost.config from\u00a0C:\\Windows\\System32\\inetsrv\\config so you have a backup.<\/p>\n
Also copy the web.config from the website you’re changing as well.<\/p>\n
Once your backups are done, open a CMD prompt and change directory to\u00a0c:\\windows\\system32\\inetsrv and run the following commands:<\/p>\n
appcmd set config “SITE_NAME_HERE” \/section:identity \/impersonate:false<\/p>\n
appcmd set config \/section:applicationPools \/[name=’SITE_NAME_HERE’].processModel.identityType:SpecificUser \/[name=’SITE_NAME_HERE’].processModel.userName:DOMAIN\\user_name \/[name=’SITE_NAME_HERE’].processModel.password:Password_Here<\/p>\n
it isn’t necessary to restart the app pool but it doesn’t hurt to do so.<\/p>\n
To verify:<\/p>\n
Test the site… Check the site logs… Check your security logs…<\/p>\n
All done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How to script moving a website username\/password from web.config to an app pool is pretty easy if you have the correct syntax. First, you need to use a tool called appcmd. that is located and must be ran from the following location: c:\\windows\\system32\\inetsrv Before you make the change, this process updates the applicationHost.config file AND […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[12,9,13,10,11,14],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iis-7","category-scripting","tag-app-pool","tag-appcmd","tag-domain-user","tag-identity","tag-impersonate","tag-script"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n