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Privacy policy. Authentication is the mechanism you use to verify the identity of visitors to your Web site or Web application. Typically, you do this by assigning a user name and password to a visitor or allowing a visitor to anonymously access public content on your site.

Although you use authentication to confirm the identity of a visitor, you use authorization to control the visitor's access to the different areas of your site or application. Additional authentication modes can be provided by third-party authentication modules. After you install one of the authentication modules, you must enable the selected authentication module for the Web site, Web application, or Web service on which you want to use it. Kernel-mode authentication provides the following advantages:.

In the Connections pane, expand the server name, expand Sites , and go to the level in the hierarchy pane that you want to configure, and then click the Web site or Web application. Scroll to the Security section in the Home pane, and then double-click Authentication.

In the Authentication pane, select Anonymous Authentication , and then click Disable in the Actions pane. In the Connections pane, expand the server name, expand Sites , and navigate to the level in the hierarchy pane that you want to configure, and then click the Web site or Web application. In the Authentication pane, select Anonymous Authentication , and then click Edit Every time I bring up a new machine I always forget to update the IIS Express setting to fix this error and have to do a google search to figure out where the IIS Express configuration is stored.

So I figured I should finally document the fix for it. To fix this open up the IIS Express applicationhost. Save the file and refresh your asp. It may take a moment to load as it load the new configurations into IIS Express. After you install the role service, IIS 7 commits the following configuration settings to the ApplicationHost. In the Connections pane, expand the server name, expand Sites , and then the site, application, or Web service for which you want to enable Windows authentication.

Scroll to the Security section in the Home pane, and then double-click Authentication. In the Authentication pane, select Windows Authentication , and then click Enable in the Actions pane. In the Connections pane, expand the server name, expand Sites , and then the site, application, or Web service for which you want to enable Extended Protection for Windows authentication. Click Enable in the Actions pane.

When the Advanced Settings dialog box appears, select one of the following options in the Extended Protection drop-down menu:.

It also defines the two Windows authentication providers for IIS 7. The following example enables Windows authentication and disables Anonymous authentication for a Web site named Contoso. The following examples disable Anonymous authentication for a site named Contoso, then enable Windows authentication for the site.

You must be sure to set the commit parameter to apphost when you use AppCmd. This commits the configuration settings to the appropriate location section in the ApplicationHost. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info.