We just loaded our application on a new application server. I keep my connection strings in the machine.config instead of the web.config file for security reasons. On my local machine the connection strings are in my machine.config file, but when I deploy my application to the new sever my connection string property can't be found. It seems as though the application can't read the machine.config file. Is there something special I have to do to get the application to read the machine.config file? Does the standard user have access to that file? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks....