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 user [...]
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 system [...]
Recently, after upgrading a server to Server 2008, some developers (ok, about 15 developers and BAs) began complaining that a post to a 3rd party vendor was no longer functioning. One of the devs whipped up a winform app to test from the server and locally from his workstation. From his Windows XP workstation, it was [...]
I had copied the IIS7 config files from an already-configured server to a new server I was building. The two servers were going to be load balanced (non-NLB). After overwriting the config files on the new server with those that I had exported from the old server, I discovered that my app pools kept crashing. I attempted to reset the domain account credentials on the app pools, but found myself getting: [...]
According to this article (thanks www.ActiveWin.com for the link) at Network World, Server 2008 may flop. Why? Because 50% of IT Pros surveyed have no plans to deploy Server 2008. This is misleading. “Not having plans” doesn’t mean “won’t.” I don’t “plan” to put gas in my car within the next 12 hours, but that [...]