Administering an ISP Installation

One Virtual Server

The following procedure shows how to reset permissions for a configuration of a single virtual server with only a few sub-webs. If you have many sub-webs, work through the procedure that follows this one.

To reset permissions

Open a sub-web.
If the IUSR_computername account is listed under the Users tab, remove it. Also remove the Network, Interactive, and Everyone groups if they are listed under the Groups tab.
Click Apply.
Set browse access to Only registered users have browse access, and click Apply.
Verify that none of the users or groups you just removed has reappeared under the Users or Groups tabs. If they have, remove them.
Repeat the previous steps for each sub-web on the virtual server.
Save the root web for last, in order to avoid random password prompts.
From the IIS snap-in, right-click the virtual server for which you want to change permissions, select All Tasks, and then click Check Server Extensions.
Select Yes when you see the following prompt: Do you want to tighten security as much as possible?
Open the root web with FrontPage.
If you get an error message such as Cannot open service.lck for writing, turn off anonymous browsing on the Web server. (You can turn it back on once you have opened the root web.)
From the Tools menu in FrontPage, click Permissions, and on the Permissions property sheet, select Everyone has browse access, and click Apply.
Repeat steps 9 and 10 for each sub-web.