Getting Error import-module : Process should have elevated status to access IIS configuration data

Question

`name: DEEEEDeploy to Development Environment on: push: branches: - master pull_request: branches: - PrepRod env:

AZURE_DEVWEBAPP_NAME: GitAc-Dev AZURE_PREPRODWEBAPP_NAME: GitAc-PreProd AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH: 'D:\a\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\bin' jobs: Build: runs-on: windows-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v2

- name: Setup MSBuild
  uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1

- name: Setup NuGet
  uses: NuGet/setup-nuget@v1.0.5

- name: Restore NuGet packages
  run: nuget restore GitNewTest2/GitNewTest2.sln

- name: build
  run: |
       msbuild GitNewTest2/GitNewTest2.sln /t:Build /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform="Any CPU" /verbosity:minimal
- name: publish
  run: |
       msbuild GitNewTest2/GitNewTest2.sln /t:Publish /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform="Any CPU" /p:PublishDir="./artifacts"

• name: Upload artifacts uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 with: name: myapp path: ${{env.AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH}}

  • name: running1 run: | Get-location

  • name: running6 run: | dir D:\a\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\bin

• name: Download artifacts uses: actions/download-artifact@v2 with: name: myapp path: 'C:\app.publish'

  • name: running run: | Get-location

  • name: running2 run: | dir

  • name: running3 run: | cd C:\app.publish dir

  DeployDev:

   name: Dev
   needs: Build
    # if: github.event_name == 'refs/heads/master'
   runs-on: self-hosted
   env:
      DEV_WEBSITE_NAME: ${{secrets.DEV_WEBSITE_NAME}}
      DEV_APP_POOL_NAME: ${{secrets.DEV_APP_POOL_NAME}}
      WEBAPP_MSDeploy_USERNAME: ${{secrets.IIS_USERNAME}}
      WEBAPP_MSDeploy_PASSWORD: ${{secrets.IIS_PASSWORD}}
   environment:
        name: Dev
   steps:
      - name: Checkout Code 
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Download artifacts
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
        with:
         name: myapp
         path: 'C:\app.publish'
  
  
      - name: copying
        run: |
             $path="${{github.workspace}}\GitNewTest2\Scripts\DevTestScript.ps1"
             echo $path
             & $path
  
             cd C:\inetpub\wwwroot\
             dir
             Copy-Item C:\app.publish\* C:\inetpub\wwwroot\${{env.DEV_WEBSITE_NAME}} -Recurse -Force
  

• name: create new apppool run: |

            Start-Process powershell.exe -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList "-File C:\actions-runner\_work\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\Scripts\DevTestAppPool.ps1"
  
            # & C:\actions-runner\_work\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\Scripts\DevTestAppPool.ps1
     - name: create website
       run: |
          & C:\actions-runner\_work\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\GitNewTest2\Scripts\DevTestWebsite.ps1
     - name: config to use new appool
       run: |
         Set-ItemProperty -Path "IIS:\Sites\${{env.DEV_WEBSITE_NAME}}" -Name "applicationPool" -Value ${{env.DEV_APP_POOL_NAME}}
  
  
     - name: Deploy to IIS
       run: |
          start-process PowerShell -verb runas 
          iisreset /stop
          iisreset /start
  

`

Above I shared my github workflow code , I have tried with command RunAs , then tried editing registry policy as well. Stil I see the same error . Any help would be greate.

Answer 1

I am using self hosted GitHub action and this happens to me:

I was struggling with this as I have this error when I am trying to make the pool sleep and then start it and the privilege causes it

Run Stop-WebAppPool -Name "DotNetTesting"
Process should have elevated status to access IIS configuration data.
stop-webitem : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'IIS' does not exist.

I solved it by going to the action runner and trying to run "run.cmd" as an administrator and solved.