IIS 7 Application Pool Statuses are all "Access Denied"

I am running all of my application pools under a domain user account, however
it does not matter if I change them to Local System or Network Service, their
status all reads, "Access Denied", no matter how many times I have rebooted,
added all of the users to the "Administrators" group, all of it.

All of the local web sites are running just fine (odd for this type of
error), however in IIS Manager it shows a big red "X" on the Default web site
and these status codes under Application Pools. There are no errors or
associated items in the Event Logs (annoying, definately).

This just started happening yesterday and since then I have not been able to
access any of my web projects through Visual Studio 2008 either (I get a web
site unavailble or access denied, use elevated privileges, etc, although I
always run VS2008 as "Run as Administrator...".

Any ideas on why this is happening?

RE: IIS 7 Application Pool Statuses are all "Access Denied"

The issue was with DCOM security settings. I had changed them and did not
remember doing it, 3 weeks later after finally rebooting my computer I
figured out the problem, reset the DCOM security settings that I had changed,
rebooted and everything was fine.

Here is the full cause and solution:

http://chadscharf.com/post/2008/01/You-cane28099t-always-bla me-Bill-when-Vista-breaks.aspx.



"Chad Scharf" wrote:

> I am running all of my application pools under a domain user account, however
> it does not matter if I change them to Local System or Network Service, their
> status all reads, "Access Denied", no matter how many times I have rebooted,
> added all of the users to the "Administrators" group, all of it.
>
> All of the local web sites are running just fine (odd for this type of
> error), however in IIS Manager it shows a big red "X" on the Default web site
> and these status codes under Application Pools. There are no errors or
> associated items in the Event Logs (annoying, definately).
>
> This just started happening yesterday and since then I have not been able to
> access any of my web projects through Visual Studio 2008 either (I get a web
> site unavailble or access denied, use elevated privileges, etc, although I
> always run VS2008 as "Run as Administrator...".
>
> Any ideas on why this is happening?