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Windows authentication (or Integrated Windows Authentication) is a process where connections to applications or external systems are automatically authenticated with the currently logged on Windows user. This functionality was first made available in Windows 2000.

Windows authentication (or Integrated Windows Authentication) is a process where connections to applications or external systems are automatically authenticated with the currently logged on Windows user. This functionality was first made available in Windows 2000.

IWA is not actually a standard or authentication protocol, but is a process that relies on the underlying authentication protocols used by Windows and an application that is aware of them to transparently pass authentication information along to the requesting server or service.

There is a brief summary of IWA/WA on Wikipedia, here.

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IIS – Windows Authentication – Authenticating self

I have an iis6 .net website which requires windows authentication (Anonymous disabled). The website has a dedicated application pool running as NETWORK SERVICE. The website contains a requirement to perform http requests against itself. When the…
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IIS 6 Windows Authentication in ASP.Net app fails

I am trying to install an ASP.Net app on an IIS6 webserver. The site requires the user to authenticate with windows, and this works on several other apps on the same server. In IIS I have enabled anonymous access and windows authentication. In…
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How to install the same user on two different servers?

I have two Windows Server 2008 servers. 1) Is a web server 2) is a db server I need to use Windows authentication to access the db server, therefore I need to create a new user on both machines. I'm finding user domains quite confusing. Help or…
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How to properly clear a remote LAN connection?

I am on a Windows centric LAN without a domain. I have access to several machines on my network, each with different username and passwords. I originally connected to them with a UNC path in explorer and entered in the authentication…
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Is the context of local user of AD-joined machine a domain machine account or of local machine account?

I am a developer and curious how Windows server machines are used. A) I believe that they show interactive login screen but run without any user had ever logged-in. Correct? In context of definition of (*), under which account the booted Windows…
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Setting Sql server security rights for multiple situations

We have an application which uses an instance of Sql Server locally for its backend storage. The administrator windows login has had its sysadmin right revoked, and instead two sql logins have been created; one for the application with a secret…
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Set up basic Windows Authentication to connect to SQL Server 2008 from a small, trusted network

I'm guessing that this is documented somewhere on Microsoft's site, but thus far I haven't found it. I'm trying to set up a Windows Server 2008 box to have SQL Server 2008 with Windows Authentication (Mixed Mode, actually, but anyway) for work. We…
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"Unknown user name or bad password" when I launch ADUC

When I open up Active Directory Users and Computers from my workstation, I receive an error: Naming information cannot be located because: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. Contact your system administrator to verify that your…
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Windows authentication (AD) not working when IIS Application pool is running as custom user

I'm using: Windows 10 x64 Professional (in ad domain) IIS 10 Web site is running under local user EPM_USER, everything works except Windows authentication Configuration: When I try to from another computer which is also in AD domain with valid…
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Disable the Windows 10 Password login option when FIDO in use

Hello Collective intelligence, I have a question that is bugging me, I have a Yubikey 5C setup in Azure AD with passwordless auth and registered to my account, I can log into the PC using the FIDO key and PIN and have managed to get Windows 10 to…
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IIS time is different from server time

I have ASP.NET 2.0 site configured to perform Windows Integrated Security using Kerberos delegation. The servers including DC are running on Windows 2003 and the delegation is raised to Windows 2003 level. BTW, all servers are set to EST The…
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Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 - replica VMs state "password incorrect", but lets me log in after 7-8 minutes

so I have a replica server that backups 2 server 2012 R2 VMs. Each week, I run a test failover to make sure they boot up, and I can log into them. A curious issue I'm having is, once I get to the login screen, I can type the password to login, only…
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IIS SSO not working, asking for login via login-prompt every new session

We are facing an issue where we don't get SSO to work on an IIS web app. We have set Windows-Authentication as enabled and Negotiate and NTLM as providers (IIS Windows Authentication and Providers). We have the same setup on a test-environment where…
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Windows authentication across multiple hostnames without multiple credential prompts - is it possible?

I have a web application that utilizes multiple hostnames (see below for an explanation of why it's set up like this - I don't want that to distract from the more general question here). Basically, there are: Two fixed hostnames (www.domain1.com…
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In Windows Active Driectory, what's the purpose of SIDs when the username is already unique?

A Windows ID (such as MyDomain\someuser) will have a unique SID (such as S-1-5-21-1695517229-881958489-217698969-1001) The ID is used during login, which confirms that it too is unique in nature. What's the purpose of the SID then? Seems like a…
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