Some time ago I migrated a client’s Small Business Server 2003 to a Small Business Server 2008. When migrating their WSS 2.0 SharePoint from the old server to the new one I ran into some problems. I just could not get access to the Operations or Application management in SharePoint Central Administration, with the below event logged.
Log Name: Application
Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Date: 2009-02-26 13:23:42
Event ID: 1314
Task Category: Web Event
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: CONTOSOSRV02.Contoso.local
Description:
Event code: 4007
Event message: URL authorization failed for the request.
Event time: 2009-02-26 16:21:50
Event time (UTC): 2009-02-26 15:21:50
Event ID: 0087e3fc2a3440178e6a801602c514f7
Event sequence: 113
Event occurrence: 6
Event detail code: 0
Application information:
Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1899589246/ROOT-1-128801351457937683
Trust level: WSS_Minimal
Application Virtual Path: /
Application Path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\4721\
Machine name: CONTOSOSRV02
Process information:
Process ID: 7888
Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name: CONTOSO\Administrator
Request information:
Request URL: http://contososrv02:4721/_admin/operations.aspx
Request path: /_admin/operations.aspx
User host address: ::1
User: CONTOSO\tempadmin
Is authenticated: True
Authentication Type: Negotiate
Thread account name: CONTOSO\tempadmin
After doing som troubleshooting I got everything working by editing the web.config file of the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\ADMIN directory. I simply added the line below to the file, saved it and then I could access the Operations and Application Management of SharePoint Central Administration.
<allow roles="CONTOSO\WSS_ADMIN_WPG" />
Case closed!