IIS Express HTTP Error 401.2 - Unauthorized
Try adding the following to your web.config.
<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
<security>
<authentication>
<windowsAuthentication enabled="true" />
</authentication>
</security>
</system.webServer>
I've had such a problem in VS 2013 with IIS 8.0 Express when I wanted to update Service Reference. A dialog popped up asking for username/password. A strange substring was added to the service url:
_vti_bin/ListData.svc
I started configuring windows authentization as mentioned in some posts in this page in applicationhost.config. Finally, the working configuration can't have Negotiate provider:
<windowsAuthentication enabled="true">
<providers>
<!--<add value="Negotiate" />-->
<add value="NTLM" />
</providers>
</windowsAuthentication>
And the anonymous authentication must be disabled:
<anonymousAuthentication enabled="false" />
<windowsAuthentication enabled="true" />
Make sure you have something like below in your applicationhost.config file
<windowsAuthentication enabled="true">
<providers>
<add value="Negotiate" />
<add value="NTLM" />
</providers>
</windowsAuthentication>
This file is probably in %HOMEPATH%\Documents\IISExpress\config\