How to run a Visual Studio project on Local IIS without Administrator rights

Due to the company policies, many developers don’t have Administrator rights on the machines they use for development. Microsoft released IIS Express to allow these developers load and run projects in Visual Studio without Administrator rights.

If your project is somehow not compatible with IIS Express and you want to run it on Local IIS without Administrator rights on the machine, try the two workarounds below. They are not guaranteed to work but you may save a lot of time if they do work.