What type of password I have to give to set the custom account for application pool identity [closed]

Answer 1

I met the same issue and solved with typing username which following domain name. As the pic shown. And entered the windows login password then it works.

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Answer 2

For me it was in my haste to follow the instructions for creating a merge agent account for replication I had left "User must change password at next logon" ticked. Make sure that the user does't have this ticked.

Answer 3

I've been perplexed by this before as well, and tried everything else mentioned in all previous replies, to no avail. In my case, I was trying to use a local user that I created myself (for a developer machine), but my problem was that I had not unchecked the "User must change password at next logon" checkbox on the properties of the User in the Computer Management tool when creating the User. This is yet another scenario that can result in this very generic error message from IIS. Unchecking this fixed the issue immediately.

Answer 4

For me, it was that the domain user had to be a member of the IIS_IUSRS group. Added the user to the group via Computer Management -> Users and Groups, restarted the app pool and all was well.

Answer 5

I'd configured the settings below but I was still getting the same error when trying to change the identity of the new application pool using the UI:

'The specified password is invalid. Type a new password.'

• Local Users and Groups
  • Added the Domain Service Account to the local group 'IIS_IUSRS'.
• Local Security Policy
  • Added the domain service account to the policies:
    • Access this computer from the network
    • Deny log on locally
    • Log on as a batch job
    • Log on as a service

The method that worked for me was to ditch the UI and do it via the command line using appcmd.exe.

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config /section:applicationPools /[name='APP_POOL_NAME'].processModel.identityType:SpecificUser /[name='APP_POOL_NAME'].processModel.userName:DOMAIN\USER_NAME /[name='APP_POOL_NAME'].processModel.password:PASSWORD 

This method is described in the article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771170(v=ws.10).aspx

Answer 6

Getting Error - The specified password is invalid.Type a new password.

Use the below command from the CMD and it will fix the issue-

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config /section:applicationPools /[name='APP_POOL_NAME'].processModel.identityType:SpecificUser /[name='APP_POOL_NAME'].processModel.userName:DOMAIN\USER_NAME /[name='APP_POOL_NAME'].processModel.password:PASSWORD