IIS 8.5: Virtual Account for App Pool (IIS AppPool\{Application Pool Name} is not available

Question

I am running IIS 8.5 on a Windows 2012 R2 Core box. I created a new application pool called \"MyNewAppPool\". I have a website instance, called \"MyNewWebsite.com\" running in

Answer 1

You won't ever find the synthesised application pool identity in the permissions search dialogue. Just type in the name of the pool identity like this:

Via GUI:

The click the Check Names button:

Via Command Line:

Alternatively you can use ICACLS from an administrator command line/Powershell:

icacls c:\wwwroot\mysite /grant "IIS AppPool\MyNewAppPool":(CI)(OI)(M)