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Asked: 2026-05-15T22:08:52+00:00

I have an IIS 7 machine with multiple apps/vdirs on the single default web

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I have an IIS 7 machine with multiple apps/vdirs on the single default
web site. I would like to set two of them with this authentication:
anonymous – off
impersonation – on
forms auth – off
windows auth – on

I would like to do this with appcmd.exe but cannot seem to get the
syntax down right. Has anyone had luck with this?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should try Configuration Editor (included in IIS 7.5 and available for download for IIS 7.0 at http://www.iis.net/download/AdministrationPack), it can generate the AppCmd.exe commands automatically as well as javascript and managed code. Using it I generated the following (for default web site):

    appcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.webServer/security/authentication/anonymousAuthentication /enabled:"False"  

appcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.web/identity /impersonate:"True"  

appcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.webServer/security/authentication/windowsAuthentication /enabled:"True"  /commit:apphost

    Note that the ones with commit:apphost are because the sections are locked by default which means they need to be set inside ApplicationHost.config using location paths.

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