Kevin Grohoske

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Inaccessible logs: Security Error On Windows Server 2008 in IIS7

Friday, September 05, 2008 06:02 | posted by: kevin

We use a custom exception handler which utilizes the MS Enterprise Library Exception Block. I recently had an ASP.NET page I was testing that failed a test and I received “Inaccessible logs: Security Error” message.

Problem:

Root problem is the first time a ASP.Net application attempts to write to the Event Log an exception type for that application is created. In this case the Application Pool was running as the “NetworkService” identity.

Solution:

Simple fix is to change the identity that the Application Pool is running as an identity that has administrative privileges. In this case, I switched the identity to “LocalSystem”. Run the offending page again one time and the exception’s event type is created, then switch the Application Pool’s Identity back to “NetworkService”.

 

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