Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Enabling Windows Authentication in IIS Express

If you need to enable Windows Authentication for your ASP.NET Application and you are using IIS Express (usually when you are using the built-in web server with Visual Studio), then you can edit the applicationhost.config file.

The applicationhost.config file is located in the My Documents\IISExpress\config directory (ex: C:\Users\MyUserName\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config)

You can simply locate the location element in your applicationhost.config file representing your ASP.NET Web Application so that the section looks like the following:

<location path="ASPNET.MyWebApp">
       <system.webServer>
           <security>
               <authentication>
                   <windowsAuthentication enabled="true" />
               </authentication>
           </security>
       </system.webServer>
   </location>

That is all there is to it!!


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