Re: SOS! IIS Stopped working completely!

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From: Patrick (patl_at_reply.newsgroup.msn.com)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:00:08 +0100

On a fresh built of IIS5.0 on Win2K SP4, both IUSR_machineName and
IWAM_MachineName are member of the Guests built-in groups. The article
listed below does not mention about group membership, but I wonder if there
would be any other undesirable "side effects" if I take IWAM_machinename out
of the guests group?

"Felix Wang" <v-felwa@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ty5Bx2bMEHA.3064@cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl...
> Hi Patrick,
>
> By default, it is the IUSR account that is a member of the Guests group.
> You may refer to the following article for more information on the IWAM
> account:
>
> Changes to the IWAM Account in IIS 5.0
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=236855
>
> I hope the information is useful to you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Felix Wang
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
> This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.
>

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