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The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security
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The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security

by Keith Brown
September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
7h 25m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 55. How to Configure the Authentication and Impersonation Levels for an ASP.NET Application

You might be wondering why you need to configure COM security settings in an ASP.NET application, but if your application makes or receives any out-of-process COM calls, you'll want to know how to control these settings. A lot of new ASP.NET applications rely on existing COM+ infrastructure. Even if your ASP.NET application acts only as a COM client, you still want these settings to be in your control.

If you're using IIS 5, it's quite easy to configure these settings for the ASP.NET worker process, ASPNET_WP.EXE. Just go into machine.config, find the <processModel> section, and edit the comAuthenticationLevel and comImpersonationLevel attributes. ...

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