Category: Misc Technical

• ISA Default Gateways & Creating Static Routes

  While troubleshooting an ISA issue today where the ISA servers could not contact our issuing CA for a client certificate, I came across a great blog entry ( http://www.shudnow.net/2009/02/01/default-gateways-and-multihomed-boxes/ ) explaining the need for static routes on multi-homed servers.  In the case of ISA, we have two seperate NIC’s each on a seperate VLAN with only…

  Mike Shellenberger

  April 1, 2010

• Commerce Server 2009 NTLM Authentication Error

  After fixing the previous issue with host headers and NTLM authentication, we discovered that we could only login to the site from the server itself.  From every other machine we received the following error message when authenticating:     Authentication Failed. at Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Profiles.ProfileServiceClass.GetProfileByKey(String bstrKeyMemberName, Object sValue, String bstrType, Boolean bReturnError) at Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Profiles.Profile..ctor(ProfileContext profileService, String keyName,…

  Mike Shellenberger

  March 16, 2010

• NTLM Authentication with IIS Host Headers

  A colleague and I have been working through this issue with Sharepoint for the last few days. The sharepoint website is setup to run under the hostname of the local computer: http://testserver01 A DNS record was created in a seperate dns namespace: testdomain.org . Whenever a client would hit the website: http://testserver01.testdomain.org and attempt to…

  Mike Shellenberger

  March 12, 2010