Is it necessary for a Windows Server 2008 R2 to join a domain so that its IIS can communicate correctly?

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Published on 2012-09-07T02:39:21Z Indexed on 2012/09/07 3:39 UTC
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I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 that is not join to any domain.

I have developed an web application that will display the domain name and the username on the server itself.

However, when I publish my web application to IIS, it always fail and display different types of error messages (because I change settings such as Enabled ASP.NET Impersonation, Disable Anonymous Authentication, Set Application Pool to Classic and so on)

So, I was wondering if it is necessary for the Server to join in a domain so that I can reduce any unnecessary error message and be able to zoom into the correct direction?

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