Can’t get IIS Express 8 beta to run website as 64-bit process

There's a blog post up on the IIS team site now explaining how to enable remote connections on IIS Express. Here is the pertinent part of that post summarized:

On Vista and Win7, run the following command from an administrative prompt:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://vaidesg:8080/ user=everyone

For XP, first install Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools. Then run the following command from an administrative prompt:

httpcfg set urlacl /u http://vaidesg1:8080/ /a D:(A;;GX;;;WD)

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and 2012 added support for IIS Express eliminating the need to edit angle brackets.

1. If you haven't already, right-click a web-flavored project and select "Use IIS Express...".
2. Once complete, select the web project and press F4 to focus the Properties panel.
3. Set the "Windows Authentication" property to Enabled, and the "Anonymous Authentication" property to Disabled.

I believe this solution is superior to the vikomall's options.

• Option #1 is a global change for all IIS Express sites.
• Option #2 leaves development cruft in the web.config.
  • Further, it will probably lead to an error when deployed to IIS 7.5 unless you follow the "unlock" procedure on your IIS server's applicationHost.config.

The UI-based solution above uses site-specific location elements in IIS Express's applicationHost.config leaving the app untouched.

More information here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh288080.aspx