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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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SQL Server Windows Authentication NTUSERNAME is different to Windows Login

An employee at a client has just got married and as a result they have changed her details, login name et al., in Active Directory (AD). The problem is SUSER_NAME() in procedures and the NTUSERNAME in SQL Server Profiler still shows her original…
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Remote Desktop Authentication without NTLM - How to Configure from non-Windows clients?

Background This has been bugging me for quite a while (and no amount of internet searching has amounted to a decent solution), so I'm hoping someone can offer some sage advice. When I try and start a Remote Desktop session from a Mac to a Windows…
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IIS - How to force Windows Authentication first then fall back to Anonymous Authentication

I have a website running on IIS, it works on Windows Authentication (intranet ActiveDirectory), and I am planning to open it to Internet with token-based OAuth (anonymous authentication). In my expectation, the website will first challenge the user…
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Workaround for Bloated Security Groups and Login Issue?

For each client, I have set up a main folder and service subfolders. These folders have Access-Based Enumberation (ABE) enabled and users belonging to the correct Security Groups (SGs) are able to view and access permitted folders while other…
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Integrated Windows Authentication with Apache in Windows

I have a server running Windows 2000 / Apache 2.0 and PHP 5. I need a server that recognizes the user's login client PC that is in the same domain. All the tutorials I find are with IIS or Apache on Linux. I hope someone knows how I can do this…
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Windows Auth in IIS does not work when browsing to the website on the server running IIS using a URL with an A record pointing to the IIS server

I have a website that runs on IIS that uses windows authentication. On the website level, under 'Authentication' I have only Windows Authentication (NTLM only as a provider) enabled. On the virtual directory level, under 'Authentication', I have…
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Active Directory member servers in the DMZ

I want to be specific about terms. When I say DMZ I'm talking about a place where you would put servers that expose a service to untrusted networks like the Internet, or in some cases merely networks that are less trusted. I am attempting to shore…
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Force IIS to prompt for credentials

We have a website that should only be accessed by authenticated active directory users. The first thing that should happen when entering the site is a prompt to enter windows credentials. To accomplish this, we've only enabled windows…
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Authentication Prompt is Looping Forever on Website Hosted on Internal Server in IIS

I've created a plain HTML file in a newly created web site in IIS. Also, I've disabled anonymous authentication and I've enabled windows authentication. I'm trying to authenticate using a domain user (the whole hosting machine is a server inside a…
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ARR 3 IIS 7.5 Windows Authentication not working

We have been spinning our wheels trying to get windows authentication working through ARR. We've created a new domain account (appservices) ARR Server (srvarr) using default app pool with user set to appservices IIS Server (srvweb) using default app…
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Workstation authentication against wrong AD server in multi-site configuration

Having a problem which I've seen before but haven't yet found a solution to, I've got multiple AD sites in one domain physically separated and logically separated by different subnets and AD sites. When a user account is enabled after being in a…
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Kerberos authentication failing with 401

We have a .NET MVC 3 application deployed in IIS 7 on our Windows 2008 server (let's call it PROD). The application has Anonymous and Windows Authentication enabled - all others are disabled. The authentication providers specified in…
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Does active directory log authentication success/failure with the OS?

For example, if I use an AD account to login on Windows 7 and then Windows 8, will I be able to tell in logs setup by default? If not by default, how would I set this logging up?
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Intranet website - getting a login box although I have configured Windows Authentication in IIS

In a Windows AD domain environment (MYDOMAIN with DNS suffix mydomain.local), I have a server with an Intranet website, that runs on IIS 7.5. I have disabled all authentication types except Windows Authentication. When I access my website with only…
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Windows authentication to SQL Server via IIS and PHP

We're running a PHP 5.4 application on Server 2008 R2. We would like to connect to a SQL Server 2008 database, on a separate server, using Windows authentication (must be Windows authentication--the DB admins won't let us connect any other way). I…
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