.Sitecore

After installing 5.3′, the install script has set some rights so you aren’t able to go to the DBBrowser for example. Ofcourse I do know that the tool isn’t supported by Sitecore, but as I’ve seen that it is enhanced in 5.3, I know it’s at least usefull… :).

But anyway,the message that appaeared wasn’t that friendly and usefull:

The only usefull information was ’401.2′. So after some Googling(sorry guys, but Sitecoring is also a verb for me ). I found this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253667

Microsoft Support helped me out, I just had to turn on Anonymous Access for the specific folder(webstie/sitecore/admin):

Funny behaviour: my app-pool got a reset. I guess that’s explainable, but I noticed it…

For those who don’t know about which folder I’m talking and what the DBBrowser is, take a look at the following pages:

• http://yourinstall.ext/sitecore/admin/dbbrowser.aspx
• http://yourinstall.ext/sitecore/admin/cache.aspx
• http://yourinstall.ext/sitecore/admin/restore.aspx
• http://yourinstall.ext/sitecore/admin/stats.aspx
• http://yourinstall.ext/sitecore/admin/dumpindex.aspx

Note: I highly recommend to disallow the anonymous users when you migrate to a production environment!