Picture this scenario: You have a SharePoint farm and its associated Active Directory domain (Domain Controller A) in a traditional perimeter network, sandwiched between an external and internal firewall. Similar to the following diagram” However, you want to authenticate against the SharePoint web server (which is a member of domain A) using your internal [...]
Full Story »Configure SharePoint to Authenticate Cross-Forest AD Users Across a Firewall
Burned Again by Loopback Checking in IIS
While adding a new Data Source to a Sharepoint Site for SQL Reporting Services, I kept getting the following error: An unexpected error occurred while connecting to the report server. Verify that the report server is available and configured for SharePoint integrated mode. Ummm…. OK. It is configured for SharePoint integrated mode. Quick Google search [...]
Full Story »SharePoint Through TMG Prompts for Authentication
In a previous post, I talked about getting prompted for authentication when accessing Documents on a SharePoint site while using Windows 7. This time around, the problem we noticed was with external users whom were getting prompted when accessing a public SharePoint server through Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway or TMG. The clues to this [...]
Full Story »Lost HOSTS File in SharePoint 2007
Just the other day, one of my application developers contacted me to say he could not get into one of the SSPs from Central Admin for one of my SharePoint Farms. When I checked it out, sure enough, you could click on the SSP link but nothing happened. My next step was to check [...]
Full Story »Windows 7 Prompting for Authentication When Accessing SharePoint Documents
I’m still enjoying the experience as a new Windows 7 user. However, one of the problems I ran into recently was the repeated and constant prompting for username and password when accessing a document in my SharePoint repository. Actually, I was getting prompted twice despite the fact the SharePoint server is on my local network [...]
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