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 [...]
Well, finally a post after the chaos that was the holidays. I was on vacation for 12 days and accomplished…nothing. Except for a lot of Counterstrike. And Team Fortress 2.
If you’re running SCOM 2007 and BizTalk 2006 (and have the SQL agent jobs properly configured) you may notice a warning in SCOM that says there [...]
So, for whatever reason you need to move your BizTalk databases from one SQL server to another. In my case, I was moving from a hostname to a CNAME, for DR purposes (failover server is in another DC, and not clustered).
In the event of a disaster, we could just fail over to the other database [...]