How to change SharePoint Windows Authentication prompt times for login? - windows

In my environment, my SharePoint 2010 is running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS7. The expected behavior after adding SPNs was that the user was prompted 3 times by default. How to configure the prompt times? maybe 2 or 5 times?

It is decided in the browser, not in the server. Server returns HTTP401 status code in all of these requests, browser decides if the user should retry or not.
Anyway, when you have SPNs set up, passwords should work from the first time. It is worth rebooting the server after SPN setup.

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SignalR Fails with more than 2 connections

I have written a fairly simple chat application in SignalR.
It seems if i connect with more than 2 tabs/browsers/devices the third will hang and never connect and eventually cause problems.
Why can I only connect with 2 users?
The third request goes through as soon as I disconnect one of the other 2.
Doesn't matter if I use the same user or different users.
I am using IIS on Windows 10, Asp.Net MVC5 with SignalR 2.2
It never calls the hub code, if I try to connect with a fourth client while that tab is open the fourth tab won't even return the view.
$.connection.hub.start().done(function () {
//add all existing messages when we start the connection
//chat.server.addExistingMessages();
console.log('Now connected, connection ID=' + $.connection.hub.id);
console.log is never hit for the third connection.
$.connection.hub.start()
Is hit, and the connection and hub have values that aren't null.
public override Task OnConnected()
{
Is never hit on the third connection unless I terminate one of the other two. So sharing the internals of these methods/functions would only add confusion I feel.
$.connection.hub.starting(function () {
console.log('starting')
});
$.connection.hub.received(function () {
console.log('connection received')
});
On the third client, starting his put in the console but received isn't.
I believe I was able to discover the answer to this after much hair pulling out and frustration.
Because desktop IIS only allows 10 concurrent connections and websocket connections are so dynamic I think that it was acting as 10 connections with only 2 actual connections.
http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/getting-started/supported-platforms
"full versions of IIS or Cassini should not be used, since there will
be a limit of 10 simultaneous connections imposed, which will be
reached very quickly since connections are transient, frequently
re-established, and are not disposed immediately upon no longer being
used. IIS Express should be used on client operating systems."
If that is not the case then someone please correct me!
As a work around I am going to use IIS Express, my reasoning behind not wanting to was becauase I wanted my site exposed so my co-workers could connect and sanity test. I figured out how to expose IIS to the web and run it from a command prompt so I can develop while the server is up.
This is how to expose IIS Express
Go to
c:\Users[YourName]\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config
Add(replacing IP address and port appropriately):
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:58938:192.168.1.42" />
To the relevant site.
Running IIS from command line
Open a command prompt.
You do not need Administrator user rights to run the commands in this
walkthrough. However, you must have Administrator user rights if you
want to run IIS Express on ports numbered 1024 or less. Run the
following command to navigate to the IIS Express installation folder:
cd \Program Files\IIS Express
or if you are using a 64-bit OS, run the
following command: cd \Program Files (x86)\IIS Express Run the
following command to view the IIS Express usage string:
iisexpress /site:site-name
and of course don't forget about port forwarding and firewall pass through.

Deploying MVC 3 website on Windows Server 2003 with Windows Authentication

I have deployed an MVC 3 website on IIS of my Windows Server 2003 edition. I have set the authentication to Basic, Integrated, and Windows in order to enable site to use Windows authentication, and automatically log in into website if the user has launched the site from the same domain. If user access the site from another domain, it should prompt the Windows credentials and should allow user to log in.
However the problem is that, user is presented with Windows login prompt every time (irrespective to same or different domain), and also when user provides valid credentials it doesn't allow user to access the site.
What could be the problem here? Or, can anyone provide me proper guide to configure IIS to use Windows Authentication while deployed on Windows Server 2003?
What is the version of IIS you are using ? Could you try to force NTLM authentication and see whether it will change anything ? Followin technet article will tell you how to change to NTML http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/7258232a-5e16-4a83-b76e-11e07c3f2615.mspx?mfr=true. Please backup the server/iis configs before attempting any modifications to the metabase

How do I authenticate to a SQL Server database on a domain from a virtual machine off the domain?

I am supporting a .NET 4.0 (Visual Studio 2010) web application that authenticates to a SQL Server 2008 database which resides on my work intranet. The application authenticates to the database using windows authentication. Thats all fine and dandy if Im developing on my host, but I am developing on a virtual machine that is not on the work domain. Thus when the project build and runs, it throws a SqlClient.SqlException
"Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication."
Short of developing on my host and abandoning the VM, what can I do to avoid this error and successfully authenticate to the database so I can build/run the web app? I am willing to store my credentials somewhere locally, though preferably not somewhere that would be under TFS source control (like the web.config) because I couldnt keep the file checked out since there are other developers on the project.
I have tried running Visual Studio as a different user (as the user on my work domain) but I get a "unknown user name or bad password" error.
Note, adding the Virtual Machine to the domain (or connecting to it via VPN) are not options. The VM must remain off the domain. Also note, the virtual machine is running on the computer that is on the domain, and the VM uses a shared connection. So it CAN access the intranet but it can't perform windows authentication to SQL Server.
You can run Visual Studio (or SQL Server Management Studio) as the user on the domain. The trick is, you have to use the “/netonly” option of the “runas” Windows tool, so that you can run as a domain user on a non-domain machine.
Namely, in a command prompt you run this command (filling in your own criteria):
runas /netonly /user:<Domain>\<User_Name> "<Your_Program.exe>"
Alternatively, you can create a shortcut on your desktop, and set this command as the shortcut target. Upon running the shortcut/command, you enter your credentials when prompted and visual studio (or whatever program you like) will run as the domain user.
Join the domain using vpn connection if possible. Vpn can connect you with specific domain credentials. Alternative would be connecting using SQL Server Authentication if SQL Server is configured with mixed authentication.
From what I understand, you have several options:
You could add a user account to the SQL db to allow password authentication
Have the VM join the domain
Create an SSH tunnel to the host SQL server port

Can't connect to Team Foundation Server

I've been happily using Team Foundation Server with Visual Studio 2010 for the last couple of months at my current place of work when it has suddenly stopped working. I get the following errors:
If I browse to the wiki (Sharepoint) on the TFS server it works fine in Firefox but in Internet Explorer it fails with:
No authority could be contacted for authentication.
I'm not aware of any changes to the server or my machine that would cause the errors and other users of TFS are not affected.
The TFS server is on a different domain to my machine, but usually I get prompted to login and using a domain prefixed username works. At the moment, I don't even get a login prompt anymore.
How do I fix this?
I have recently started to experience a similar issue. We also host TFS on a different domain. Twice in the last week TFS has stopped authenticating users, and I have received messages similar to above. I have no idea what is causing this, but on each occasion SQL Server Agent service was stopped. A reboot of the server and a manual restart of SQL Server agent seems to fix the problem temporarily. I'm not sure if this information is helpful, but I would also really appreciate any help in getting to the bottom of this.
We used a workaround to get past this problem. We configured an entry in the Windows Stored User Names and Passwords tool for the domain of the TFS server. It got around the problem of TFS not prompting for credentials by explicitly supplying them via this tool.
When you change your password for that domain account, you must also change the password here otherwise your account can be locked after failing authentication too many times.
I had the same problem, sorted it by upgrading to tfs2012
In my case, I changed the default port 8080 to port 80 and everything worked fine. but the message could also happen due to wrong saved credentials. you can go to the control panel of the windows and search for credentials manager and then remove your TFS credentials.

Cannot Access http://<tfs-server>:8080

I've installed TFS 2008, but I can't seem to access the server. When I try to connect to it in Visual Studio, I can't. If I try by browser on a remote PC, I get a generic page cannot be displayed. On the server, I get a 403. Nothing was touched in IIS and the service is running as a Network Service. Any ideas?
try:
http://localhost:8080/Services/V1.0/ServerStatus.asmx. This will tell you if TFS is up and running. If you are getting anything else you need to look into IIS issues.
I wrote a blog post on diagnosing these types of TFS connections.
http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2008/06/26/troubleshooting-connections-to-tfs.aspx
The very first thing I do is confirm that it works for a known-good configuration – usually my workstation.
Providing that works and the server appears to be functioning, the next thing I do is ask the user to call the CheckAuthentication web service using Internet Explorer.
The URL for this is: http://TFSSERVER:8080/services/v1.0/ServerStatus.asmx?op=CheckAuthentication
By doing this check, I am doing four things:
Eliminating Team Explorer from the picture
Eliminating the .NET networking stack from the picture
Ensuring that Windows Authentication is working correctly (that’s why I say IE)
Ensuring that proxy settings are set correctly
In most cases I’ve seen, the TFS connection issues are because the proxy settings have changed or are incorrect. Because .NET and Visual Studio use the proxy settings from Internet Explorer, it’s important to have them set correctly.
In rare cases it’s beyond this. That’s when I start looking at things like:
Can you resolve the server name?
Can you connect using the IP address?
Are there HOSTS file entries? (see: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
Can you ping the server?
Can you telnet to port 8080?
Does the user actually have access? Run TfsSecurity.exe /server:servername /im n:DOMAIN\User to check their group memberships
Have you changed your domain password lately? In some cases they’ll need to logoff the workstation and log back on again to get a new security token.
Is the computer's domain certificate valid? update the certificate: gpupdate /force
Hope this helps.
Turns out the time and date on my computer was not "close enough" to the time and date on the tfs server. Changed my system clock setting and problem went away.
What happens if you send a simple HTTP request to the server directly?
ie:
telnet 8080 [enter]
GET / HTTP/1.1[enter]
[enter]
[enter]
That might give a hint about whether IIS is actually serving anything. If you can do that on the server, what about from a different machine? If the results are different a good guess is there are some security/firewall issues somewhere. HTH a little.
I went through everything on a similar problem.
I logged onto my tfs server and connected directly there.
I also used a TFS admin tool I downloaded some time ago from Microsoft, and made sure I was in all the right groups and projects.
I then went back to the client PC with the problem, tried the services/1.0/serverstatus.asmx?op=CheckAuthentication Url again, and it worked this time.
AFter that full service was restored to my PC.
So I don't have the exact answer, but I would go through the checklists presented by Grant Holliday in his answer.
Add this to the cases for future users, as i had this issue on server 2016...
if your firewall allow only Domain and Private Network, it may not work on client. make sure you give public permission, if server network is set to public...
The error you may face:
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
for
http://fserver:8080/tfs

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