VS2008, IIS7 web project, non-admin. When?

Question

What needs to happen before we can open web application projects hosted in IIS7 with Visual Studio 2008 without running as an administrator? Are we talking about waiting for the next version of Visual Studio? Are there any existing workarounds?

I think this is implied above, but this applies to Vista.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Almost never a bad option - almost all other developments that I can do as a non-admin. This is not as if the code under IIS also needed administrator rights.

Answer 2

I would like to see the IISAdmin group, which grants permission to the developer user account to manage IIS without providing full administrator rights for the entire PC.

Answer 3

My guess never. I think that admin rights will always be needed to change websites and virtual directories in IIS.