Solved it!
Here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...iguration-tool
What I ended up doing was making a new user account without Administration privilages. (generic user) Gave this user access to database then followed the steps in 3 and 4 everything is good now. Strange how it will not work when the user is in the Administrators group.

Imar,

Thanks for you help on this. I guessed that it was a permission issue. I created another windows account without admin privileges. Running IIS from there worked. I had to share the location and give that share full control.

It's a little cumbersome let's hope MS reintroduce it on the next release of VS.

Thanks,

Dave

Good to hear you both figured it out.
Cheers,

Imar

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I'm still having issues. I can get the WSAT website running (by the line 989 edit posted earlier), but run into issues with the security tab.

I created a second account on Windows 10 as a local user (that does not have administrative privileges), and I was able to run WSAT through IIS Express on there. However, I receive the same error when I click on the security tab.

The folder for my website is shared and has full access by my second account.

Any other ideas or workarounds? Do I need to use the WSAT tool?

Could using MS SQL Server 2014 rather than 2012 be the issue?

Any help is appreciated.

SQL 2014 should not be a problem. I am using SQL Express 2014 with no problems.

One quick thought did you give the new account full access to the database associated with your web site? To get mine to work I had to give read write access to the database for my generic user account. Small caveat I am using windows 7

Also I did not need to edit the file to get it to work.

Hmm, how would I do that? When the database was created it used windows authentication and the LocalDB rather than a database on SQL Server 2014.

1. Open windows explorer then locate where your database.mdf files is located
2. Right click on database file and choose properties
3. select the Security tab then click the Advanced button
4. On The Permissions tab select Continue
5. ON the Advanced Security Setting for {name of your database}.mdf dialog box hit Add button
6. On the Select User or Group dialog select Advanced
7. in the new dialog box select eh Find Now Button
8. In the Search results: window select your newly created user
9. Hit OK Button
10. Hit ok Button on next dialog box this will bring you to the Permission Entry dialog for your database. Select the permissions you want this user to have. then Click ok
11. Now click ok on each succeeding dialog box till you are back at windows Explorer.
12. You have now given permission you choose to your new user.

Hope this helps

1. Open windows explorer then locate where your database.mdf files is located
2. Right click on database file and choose properties
3. select the Security tab then click the Advanced button
4. On The Permissions tab select Continue
5. ON the Advanced Security Setting for {name of your database}.mdf dialog box hit Add button
6. On the Select User or Group dialog select Advanced
7. in the new dialog box select the Find Now Button
8. In the Search results: window select your newly created user
9. Hit OK Button
10. Hit ok Button on next dialog box this will bring you to the Permission Entry dialog for your database. Select the permissions you want this user to have. then Click ok
11. Now click ok on each succeeding dialog box till you are back at windows Explorer.
12. You have now given permission you choose to your new user.

Hope this helps

My secondary user (called Other) inherits full access from my website folder. When I click on the .mdf file security settings it has full access (everything is checked except for special privileges).

I might just try and figure it out using IIS, rather than IIS Express. I've spent a while on this, and IIS is going to be used in the production environment so it would make sense to learn that now. I just need to move the database out of localDB and into SQL Server 2014 and hopefully figure it out.

>> just need to move the database out of localDB and into SQL Server 2014 and hopefully figure it out.

Check Appendix B; it has all the details on how to make this work.

Imar

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