How to Configure Access to the IIS Metabase
Commerce Server 2009 R2 Staging (CSS) services and CSS users must have access control permissions to the Internet Information Services (IIS) metabase to perform specific replication operations. You must grant the following access control permissions to perform these staging tasks:
Account |
Permissions |
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CSS_SG security group |
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CSS administrators, operators, or project-level users |
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Add the following rights for any user:
R - Read
W - Write
S - Restricted Write
U - Unsecure Properties Read
E - Enumerate Keys
D - Write DACL (permissions)
To use CSS with IIS 7.0, you must use Metabase compatility. Download the Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Resource Kit Tools at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=67351. This resource kit includes a Metabase Explorer that works with IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0 with IIS 6 Management Compatibility role services installed. On IIS 7.0, the IIS Admin Service must be running for the Metabase Explorer tool to work correctly.
In IIS 7.0, you can give the CSS_SG security group full control of the file applicationHost.config through the file ACLs.
To give the CSS_SG security group full control of the file applicationHost.config through the file ACLs
Move to %windir%\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config.
Right-click applicationHost.config, on the Security tab, and then click Edit to add the CSS_SG security group to the list and to give it full control.
See Also
Other Resources
How to Create a Project for Staging the IIS Metabase