WebDeploy - Not able to log on the user '.\WDeployConfigWriter'
The easiest fix to this problem is:
- Computer Management ->Local Users And Groups -> Users
- Right click -> properties on WDeployAdmin
- Uncheck "User must changed password at next logon
- Check "Password never expires"
- Do the same for WDeployConfigWriter
- Done!
Similar to @fiat solution, but you don't really need to change the password.
I had this too but with a slightly different detail
Not able to log on the user '.\WDeployConfigWriter'.
Logon failure: the specified account password has expired.
Full credit to this blog, the problem is that the Web Deploy installer creates users with expiring passwords that are used to elevate permissions during deployment. The fix is to:
- Use server manager on the accounts WDeployAdmin and WDeployConfigWriter to
- reset the password
- check password never expires
- uncheck user must change password next logon
- Use IIS -> Management Service Delegation to reset the passwords for the rules where those accounts have been configured to elevate to a specific user
- Fixed!