Set Microsoft IIS metabase permissions for the ITP/OnLine administrators group

The tool Microsoft MetaAcl can be used to grant the ITP/OnLine administrators group write permissions for the Microsoft IIS metabase. These permissions are needed to perform the actions Deploy on the main ITP/OnLine configuration page. This action is required only for Microsoft IIS versions earlier than 7.0.

Follow the instructions below for using this tool:

  1. Download the tool MetaAcl from the Microsoft support site:
    http://support.microsoft.com
  2. Extract the tool by running the downloaded executable.
  3. After extracting the tool, open a Microsoft Windows Command Prompt.
  4. Go to the folder where the tool has been extracted, using the command "CD <folder>".
  5. Then execute the following command: cscript.exe Metaacl.vbs "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/ROOT/itp" <domain or machine name>\<name of the ITP/OnLine administrators group> RWS
  6. In this command, replace "itp" by the name of the virtual directory that has been created for ITP/OnLine ASP.NET. Note that "itp" is the default name of the virtual directory.