SPN checklist for Kerberos authentication with IIS 7.0/7.5

This post is more about the confusion that may arise around SPNs for setting up Kerberos authentication in IIS 7.0. IIS 7.0 has a new Kernel-mode authentication feature using which the ticket for the requested service is decrypted using Machine account (Local system) of the IIS server. It no longer depends upon the application pool

#Kerberos#MOSS2007 on windows 2008

The are good post SharePoint Farm using Kerberos on IIS7 related to this configuration.

IIS 7.0 Kernel Mode Authentication by default

In Windows Server 2008, kernel mode authentication runs under the machine account, but Office Communications Server 2007 R2 runs under a user account. As a result, Kerberos service ticket decryption fails if kernel mode authentication is enabled. If you install and activate Office Communications Server 2007 R2 on a computer running the Windows Server 2008

How to configure IIS to support the #Kerberos protocol for network authentication

This step-by-step article describes how to configure Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) to support both the Kerberos protocol and the NTLM protocol for network authentication. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/215383/en-us

#MOSS2007 on #Windows2008, Farm Recovery, Progress: [Shared Search Index] 90 percent complete

UPDATED on: Nov 29, 2010 If the default Shared Services in the newly installed deployment is not deleted, the restore job will hang when trying to restore the Shared Search Index at the following step: Progress: [Shared Search Index] 90 percent complete. MOSS 2007 (front-ends are Windows 2008) farm recovery  is stuck on Progress: [Shared

Usage timer job failed – Event 8075 (SharePoint 2010 Products)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff453926.aspx

Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available

Go to Central Administration – > System Settings and Click Manage Service on Server Ensure that Manage metadata Web Service is Started iisreset Source: http://faizal-comeacross.blogspot.com/2010/09/managed-metadata-service-or-connection.html

An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action

Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939308 To resolve this issue, clear the file system cache on all servers in the server farm on which the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service is running. To do this, follow these steps: Stop the Timer service. To do this, follow these steps: Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Services. Right-click Windows SharePoint Services Timer, and

Metadata Service is unavailable – Event 8088 (SharePoint Server 2010)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff383250.aspx

St. Petersburg, Russia #Chess 2010. Girls Under-10 semi-final report

Ksenia Vlasenko, the winner of the St. Petersburg, Russia Girls Under-10 semi-final (October 31 – November 3, 2010). She scored 8 points from 8 (+8=0-0). Great result! Looking forward for the final at the end of November, 2010. # Name Pts Buh Berg 1 Vlasenko Ksenia 2001 8.0 35.50 35.50 2 Нугаева Айгуль 2003 7.0 40.00 32.00 3 Пилецкая Анна