IIS7 introduced the option to run your application pool as AppPoolIdentity. With the release of IIS7.5, AppPoolIdentity was promoted to the default option. You see this change if you’re running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
On my Windows 7 machine, I’m able to define my Application Pool Identity and then create an associated [...]
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It wasn’t until recently (December) that I started giving IIS7 any attention. I suspect its because I don’t have to do much inside of IIS when I’m developing .NET applications on my Vista Machine and I haven’t deployed to many Windows Server 2008 machines yet. Though there’s a impressive amount of information on the IIS [...]