Registry access for Asp.net web service in IIS 7.5

Question

HI,

I am getting "Requested registry access is not allowed." exception when trying to read a registry key in Windows Server 2008 r2 64 bit edition.

I have added the IIS application pool to Administrator group but still getting same error.

So far the solution on web din't work for me.

Thanks.

Solution

This issue has to do with granting the necessary authorization to the user account the application runs on. To read a similar situation and a detailed response for the correct solution, as documented by Microsoft, feel free to visit this post: http://rambletech.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/requested-registry-access-is-not-allowed/

(from above, to prevent link rot)

1. Find key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog”
2. Right-click and choose “Permissions”.
3. Put in the desired account

also see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842795