Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Running IIS Express without Administrative Privileges

 

Running IIS Express without Administrative Privileges

by Vaidy Gopalakrishnan

IIS Express was designed to allow the most common web development and testing tasks to be performed without administrative privileges. This is very helpful in scenarios where developers are not running with administrative rights on their computers. Even for administrative users, this feature eliminates the User Account Control (UAC) popup window in Windows Vista and Windows 7 from interrupting workflow.

This article explains what standard users can do with IIS Express and describes the tasks that are limited to administrators.

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