title: How to grant identity ApplicationPoolIdentity read rights to folder within my site
body: <p>On our Windows 2008 R2 server I have a site running under the default ASP.NET v4.0 application pool. The identity of ASP.NET v.4.0 app pool is set to "ApplicationPoolIdentity" (I guess this is default).</p>
  
  <p>How do I grant this identity access to read from a custom folder within my site. I have tried "Application Pool Identity" and "ApplicationPoolIdentity" but both gives me:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>An object named "Application Pool Identity" cannot be found.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Bonus question = should I instead forget about all this and make the change to store the files in app_data folder? Would that solve the issue?</p>