September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
In some situations, you might need to provide management capabilities and not want to use an Active Directory or Windows account. Examples of this scenario are often related to vendor support of an application. In this case, an IIS 8 user account is used. This IIS-only, non-Windows user can then be delegated permissions to manage components of the IIS infrastructure.
Follow these steps to enable support for IIS user accounts:
1. In IIS Manager, navigate to the Connections pane and select the IIS server.
2. Open the Management Service feature, which is located in the Central Details pane.
3. In the Identity Credentials section, select Windows Credentials or IIS Manager credentials.
4. Click Apply in the Action pane. ...
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