I'm accustomed to setting up websites to use the App Pool Identity for websites, and also separate app pools for each website. The Anonymous Authentication is a new one for me. It looks like the default setting is IUSR, but I've never had trouble with that on some more "standard" ASP.NET websites.
It seems a lot easier to leave the Anonymous Authentication set to the default IUSR and give file permissions to that user. That would be just one less thing to worry about.
It also seems like it would be a good idea to update the Moodle/Windows documentation to include that. What I see is "The default IIS account is IIS_IUSRS, make sure it has appropriate access right to Moodle dirroot (read only) and dataroot (read/write) directories." The choice to use the IIS_IUSRS group rather than IUSR doesent work for me, even if I give the right file permissions to it.
Is there a place where I should report this or ask that the instructions be clarified?
Is there a place where I should report this or ask that the instructions be clarified?