Excel was the example I used, but you could use anything…Somebody on HardForums.com was asking about a way to kill all but the most recently started Excel process. I came up with this:
get-process | where-object { $_.name -eq “excel” } | sort-object -property “Starttime” -descending | select-object -skip 1 | foreach { taskkill /pid $_.id [...]
I recently had a SQL server where the SQL instance had a different name than the hostname. Not having rights to connect to SQL, I wasn’t aware of that. So, I registered the SPNs as they should have been registered, and it was still falling back to NTLM (see: failing).
SQL Server will register its [...]
Recently, some of our developers were writing an app that required impersonation from the web service, as the user, to the database. Admittedly, Kerberos isn’t one of my strong points.
There were two hops here. From the user -> IIS server and from IIS Server -> SQL Server, but the application in IIS would impersonate the [...]
Linking your online ID will let you simply log in to Windows and then log in to whichever service for which you’ve installed a [...]
Here’s a quick one…
A developer was using AJAXControlToolkit in an application. Not a big deal. Except that it kept throwing that damn exception. You know the one:
Server Error in ” Application.
Security Exception
Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your [...]