Posts Tagged: Active Directory

Active Directory Authentication – Part 2

15th August, 2014

In part 1, we talked about authentication via NTLM and how the domain controllers that are used to authenticate you are the ones near the service that is being consumed. Now let us move onto Kerberos. Just like last time I need to point at a TechNet Article, How DNS Support for Active Directory Works. […]

Active Directory Authentication – Part 1

8th August, 2014

Today we are deviating away from the more Messaging related threads and we will be looking at authentication. The reason for writing this article is that I am often asked to troubleshoot authentication issues and to my surprise there are not many simple explanations about how authentication works.  Also I find time and again that […]

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