http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2009/02/11/run-as-your-apppool-account-forrest.aspxWhen running within a website that uses impersonation you find it necessary sometimes to have your code stop impersonating for a period of time while you run some code. For example if you need to get off the box (not using Kerberos) and connect to anotheren-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2009/02/11/run-as-your-apppool-account-forrest.aspx#9414017Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:13:23 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9414017Run (As Your AppPool Account) Forrest - Click &amp; Solve<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.clickandsolve.com/?p=6654">http://www.clickandsolve.com/?p=6654</a></p> http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2009/02/11/run-as-your-apppool-account-forrest.aspx#9471552Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:46:58 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9471552Matthias Glubrecht<p>Hi Todd,</p> <p>how is this any different from using SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges()?</p> <p>Kind regards, Matthias</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2009/02/11/run-as-your-apppool-account-forrest.aspx#9479299Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:32:39 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9479299Toddca<p>Its not other than I was not offering this up as necessarly a SharePoint solution, that is, this basically will work for any ASP.Net web application not just SharePoint. So if you are writing a WebPart and you would like the flexibility of it being used in ASP.Net and SharePoint the above pattern will work.</p>