Solved :) It turns out that if you run an application pool with a custom identity you need to set individual permissions on the metabase keys using metabase explorer. I had already added the IIS_WPG group that the account belongs to, but this doesn;t seem to be enough. Adding the actual local account...

Hi, Just a quick question for all you clever todds out there. I have created an ApplicationPool and it commits properly to the ServerManager but I am hittin an issue with the ManagedRuntimeVersion and .NET Framework version. ApplicationPool myAppPool = mgr.ApplicationPools.Add(Name); myAppPool.AutoStart...

Hi guys, I've been having some problem with a site and high load then iis crashes and the application pool needs to be restarted, I've noticed the w3wp.exe memory usage is really high like 130mb and climbs, could this be related? what does this process store within it and how if is the problem...