Re: Renaming IIS_5 Servername

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From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch_at_nospam.com)
Date: 05/19/04


Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:39:31 +0100

On Wed, 19 May 2004 09:36:57 -0400, "-- ken --" <youngken@sc.edu>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We've gone through a process of standardizing our computer names and have
>run into an issue with our IIS 5 server. The server name change went with no
>problem and our DNS entries are all fine and the webs are being served just
>fine. The issue we are experience are with the IUSR and IWAM accounts.
>
>We've established new IUSR and IWAM accounts and have related all websites
>that allow anonymous connectivity to the IUSR_<newServername> accounts and
>have used the ADSUTIL.VBS to set the WS3SVC AnonymousUserName setting to
>IUSR_<newServername> as well as the WAMusername setting to
>IWAM_<newServername>.
>
>After all of this we still are getting an error in the event logs when
>restarting the IIS services stating that the IUSR_<oldServername> is either
>missing (we deleted the old IUSR andn IWAM account) and is recreating the
>IUSR account (apparetnly we've been successful with all of the seettings for
>migrating to the new IWAM account). If we just disable the
>IUSR_<oldServername> we still get an event log error saying that the account
>is disabled.
>
>Is there a setting that we are missing for the migration to a new servername
>to be complete?
>
>Thanks,
>Ken
>

Ken,

Try these KB articles :

IUSR and IWAM Accounts Are Re-created When the IIS Admin Service Is
Restarted
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822165

Updating IIS After You Change the Computer Name
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=234142

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE



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