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Sharepoint impersonates the IUSR account and is denied access to resources

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SYMPTOMS

Consider the following scenario:

You have configured a Forms-based authentication Web Application on a Sharepoint 2010 Server.

Symptom 1:

On trying to generate an Audit report, you receive the following error:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

Symptom 2:

You investigate the process execution using Process Explorer ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653

(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653)

) and notice that the process includes a lot of

Token NT AUTHORITY\IUSR:3e3

Symptom 3:

You may receive the following error in SQL:

Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'

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CAUSE

This is expected behavior at the time of creation of this article.

The knowledge base article 979917

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979917)

states:

This hotfix makes a new application setting available in ASP.NET 2.0. The new application setting is 'aspnet:AllowAnonymousImpersonation'. You can enable this setting by adding the following section to the Web.config file:

    <appSettings>
        <add key="aspnet:AllowAnonymousImpersonation" value="true" />
    </appSettings>

To enable this setting, you must have IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 running in Integrated mode. When this setting is enabled, the application runs under the security context of the IUSR identity.
Additionally, creating a Forms-based Authentication Web Application will enable the setting and set it to true.

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RESOLUTION

To workaround the issues, you need to determine if the setting is mandatory for your environment, and if not, you can set it to 'false'.

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MORE INFORMATION

Be advised that editing the Authentication provider for the web application will re-set the setting to the default value (true).

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