| Jason Brown [MSFT] 2005-03-17, 7:52 am |
| As far as I'm aware, no patch should reset these settings. Did you apply any
security templates, or restore a metabase?
are you able to repeat this to pin down what caused it, or is this a
production box? Or can you supply the exact patch details so someone else
can replicate?
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Jason Brown
Microsoft GTSC, IIS
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"Steve Marshall" <Steve Marshall@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AD977CC2-30D7-4F23-94E3-F5F467191BEC@microsoft.com...
> We have a clustered application that required the use of a specific
> account
> for anonymous access. The application was configured with a local user
> account on each node in the cluster and has been working correctly since
> November. This week 2 situations occured that caused both nodes in the
> cluster to fail simultaniously. The issue was traced back to the fact
> that
> the account setup in IIS had been replaced back with the IUSR_Machinename
> account. The machines are tightly controlled and have very limited access
> for someone to be able to make a change of this nature.
> Is it possible that a windows security patch could have reset this
> account?
> We automate our patching and keep up to date with new patches as they are
> released. The latest round of patches were installed on the 20th Feb. If
> this is not possible could it be something within the cluster that changed
> the user account back? (I am doubting this to be the case since the server
> has been running since November without incident).
>
> Any help on this issue is much appreciated.
>
> Steve
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