I'm using Windows 7 Professional 64bit. My IIS settings look the way the book says they should. In step 6 on page 720, as specified, I type in "IIS AppPool\ASP.NET v4.0", and click Ok, and it brings up a window titled, Name Not Found, saying, 'An object named "IIS AppPool\ASP.NET v4.0" cannot be found...", with the "Correct this object information and search again" radio button checked.

Hi there,

When you look in the list of Application Pools (using the IIS manager), do you see an application pool by that name? If not, simply create one that targets .NET 4 and use that instead.

Cheers,

Imar

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I did a google search on this issue and it's a frequently mentioned problem with the GUI of the Permissions property boxes on Windows 7. They recommend using the icacls.exe to add it manually. I did, and that seemed to add it in - it's too early to tell if it will really work, though. I then went back into the Security properties and set the actual permissions of ASP.NET v4.0 to List folder contents and Read. The command is:

icacls "C:\BegASPET\Release" /grant "IIS AppPool\ASP.NET v4.0":F

A forum thread reference to this problem can be found here:

http://forums.iis.net/t/1156692.aspx