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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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Is it possible to use windows authentication to control access to an external SQL server database?

We're planning to move a large portion of our database to our web host's SQL server. The SQL server is only accessible through SQL logins. Is there any way to set something up locally that would recognize users' windows credentials and automatically…
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What's the recommended way to set up a windows service to connect to a remote SQL Server?

I have a service on server A that needs to connect to a SQL Server instance (2005 or 2008) on server B. Both A and B are on the same domain. What are the best practices for configuring both the service and SQL Server so that the former can connect…
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Windows - do not require password (GPO)

I'm setting up a small Active Directory installation for a company where they gave me the following requirement: While users should enter a password to logon in the morning, it is not required that they do so during the day, or at least not after…
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Site Hosted in IIS7 Continuously Prompting with Windows Authentication

I've read most of the articles posted about this topic already and nothing has resolved this issue, so I figured it was time to post. I have an intranet site that uses Windows Authentication within our network. Everything was working fine for a…
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Cannot authenticate with Kerberos if both client and server on the same machine

I have a Tomcat webapp that supports Kerberos authentication. It works fine and I can log in to that app if I use a built-in account like LOCAL SYSTEM or NETWORK SERVICE, but I'm having problems with setting up a non-default domain account for…
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IIS Intranet Users Login

I have a web application deployed in IIS 7. I want to configure it so that others from all intranet Domains can login to the web application. Here are the things I've done: Enabled IIS Windows Authentication I go to "lusrmgr.msc" Local Users and…
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Prompt for Windows credentials in IIS when specific user or host is used

I have an IIS site that uses integrated Windows authentication. Today we set up a new conference room with its own dedicated user account for the computer, and people who access the IIS site from this computer/user will not have the proper…
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Logging or Auditing functionality for un/successful access to password hash files and other authentication files on Windows Server 2008 R2

I have been asked to find whether there is auditing enabled for one of our Windows Servers for accessing password hash files or other files used for authentication. Does anyone know if there is a Logging or Auditing functionality in place for…
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Not able to "Run As" any application on a server in the TRUSTING domain using an account from the TRUSTED domain

There are two domains: "dom1" and "dom2". "dom1" is the trusting domain. "dom2" is the trusted domain. I.e. there is a one way trust where domain "dom1" trusts domain "dom2". Servers joined to domain "dom2" and logged in with an account in the…
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SQL Server Express 2014, Windows Authentication problems

I am using SQL Server Express 2014, and I currenly have a (probably) very stupid problem with Windows Authentication. I have a AD server, a MS-SQL server and a Client, where everything was installed from scratch to test in VMs. I want access to be…
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IIS 7.5 with Windows authentication - intermittent error 400 on POST

Our app runs on IIS 7.5 with Windows Authentication enabled. When uploading files via POST, some users are reporting intermittent Error 400s from IIS with an "Invalid Verb" message. I was able to reproduce this myself by completing the same form as…
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Active Directory Won't Authenticate

Something is really buggy with our Active Directory here at our company. We can query and ping everything just fine. The time is correct. We have restarted both of our Domain Controllers. We also use a Remote product called "DameWare" and we can't…
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Windows Authentication working on localhost but not on other site on IIS

I'm trying to set up a simple html/css/js only site on my local IIS that uses Windows Authentication. So far I just a have a c://mysite/index.html file When I point the default IIS website (i.e http://localhost) to this folder and enable Windows…
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Authentication fails when using ARR to load balance Lync 2013 internal web services

I'm using Application Request Routing 3.0 on Windows Server 2012 R2 to load balance the internal web services on a Lync 2013 front-end pool; I'm not using it to reverse proxy the external web services (there is a separate reverse proxy for that),…
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IIS 7.5 - Can I Disable NT Authentication if a Certain String Appears in the URL?

Simple question with possibly not such a simple resolution (if at all) Can I turn off NU authentication is a URL contains a certain string? For example, let NT authentication be enabled for all URLs apart from ones that contain "thumbs" Thanks
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