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One of the most difficult issues to troubleshoot sometimes is a Kerberos Delegation issue to SQL Server. A customer had a web application that is configured to access a remote back end SQL server under the security context of the end user. When users...

I've been working for Microsoft now for six years as a Developer Support Engineer. For me that's a long time. It is the constant learning that has kept me here. I hope to share some of that learning by posting what I think are interesting customer problems...

So you have decided to go with the delegation security model for your application. You have been developing all of the tiers of your application on your single development box where everything worked according to expectations. You have now separated all...

A customer had a requirement to pull pieces of information about the browser user from AD in their web application. Accessible to the web application is the browser user's alias and the domain that the browser user belongs to. The customer achieves...

As part of my role at Microsoft, I sometimes assist customers in making design decisions with their applications. After understanding what the requirements are for the application, I seek relevant information or resources based on the requirements. Any...

I just thought this information might assist in expediting your research into the matter. When using the automatically generated proxy class template that is created when referencing a web service from a C++ client application, you may define the proxy...

In case you are wondering where I have been or what I've been doing, I have left Syndey's sunny shores to live London on a kind of personal life experiences enrichment program :-). I'm just about settled in now in my new home, getting used to the colder...

A customer has custom code that uses the Microsoft Provisioning Framework to do the following in their respective order: 1) Create a user 2) Create a Sharepoint site (When the Sharepoint site is created, roles are also created.) 3) Add the user created...