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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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How to send mails using a custom .NET application and Windows authentication to a distribution list that only allows authenticated senders?

This is basically a cross post from my StackOverflow question to see if I can get a server side perspective. I'm trying to send automated emails from a C# console application from machines to clients all on the same domain via our internal Exchange…
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IIS 7 Windows Authentication Wrong User

IIS 7, Integrated App Pool, Identity set to NetworkService We've recently moved an asp.net MVC 3 to our production environment. The application uses windows authentication. The production environment is setup on a web farm on IIS 7, running Win 2008…
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How do I configure the Web Management Service so I'm not prompted for credentials to manage a remote IIS server

I have IIS 7.5 installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 and I have the Web Management Service configured to use Windows Authentication (including the WindowsAuthenticationEnabled registry key set to 1). From another my workstation on the same domain as…
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What happens to my SQL Server logins if I change a windows domain username

My question is very similar to this question Changing Windows Domain UserName but the original question doesn't explicitly answer my slight variation. If I change a windows users username (if they get married for instance) will my Sql Server login…
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Kernel-mode Authentication: 401 errors when accessing site from remote machines

I have several Classic ASP sites that use Integrated Windows Authentication and Kerberos delegation. They work OK on the live servers (recently moved to a Server 2008/IIS7 servers), but do not work fully on my development PC or my development…
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SQL Server 2008 - Can't Log On via local SQL Server Management Studio

FYI: OS is SQL Server 2008 (NOT R2). Yesterday, when I was trying to get Visual Studio 2010 on a remote Win XP machine to be able to debug ASP.NET over the network, I installed Active Directory (and DNS) on my server. Well, I gave up that. So, I…
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How to login faster using a domain account when the domain is unavailable

I have a laptop with Windows 7 ultimate enterprise edition installed. This is a company laptop so i have domain account as I am a domain user but also a local administrator on my laptop. My problem is that now i am out of the company premises for…
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IIS7 Slow for some users when using Windows Authentication

We have an internet site containing a "hello world" .html file on IIS7 with Windows authentication turned on. The users are local machine Windows users on the web-server. For some users the site is very slow. Using fiddler2, I've tracked it down to…
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Windows service running as network service - how does it authenticate? Breaking change in W2K8?

A Windows service running as "Network Service" talks to services on other machines (here: SQL Server and Analysis Services), using Windows authentication. For authentication, we have to grant permissions to the machine account of the service. E.g.…
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Disable authentication on subfolder(s) of an ASP.NET app using windows authentication

Is it possible to disable windows authentication on one or more subfolders of an ASP.net application using windows authentication? For example: A website contains several other folders that contain parts of the overall application: /frontend,…
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IIS Won't authenticate domain user: 401.2

I'm having a lot of trouble with configuring authentication for IIS correctly. I have a SharePoint site running under IIS 6.0, and the IIS web site is configured for Integrated Windows Authentication. The web server is on a domain called STAGING,…
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Windows authentication on intranet sites from hosting server

I have come across this problem before, it doesn't generally get in the way too much but i would really like to know why it happens. I am running SBS 2008, i changed the Bindings for the Sharepoint intranet so that instead of browing it via…
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Is it possible to limit SSRS authentication to Kerberos only?

We have an instance of SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) which uses Kerberos Constrained Delegation to fetch data for its reports from SQL Server on behalf of its users. For this purpose, SSRS was configured to use …
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How DC authenticates when Client is not using any authentication?

I have a virtual environment with the following structure: DC: Windows Server 2008 Client: Windows 7 I installed Active Directory on the Windows Server 2008 and made it in domain januapp.local, then I joined the client which uses local…
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IIS and HttpListener (.NET) with windows authentication

I have a question about Windows authentication with IIS and HttpListener I have the following setup (All installed in same Windows 8.1 box. No outside communication). All requests are sent as http://localhost/...... IIS ASP.Net web application…
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