Hi, I plan to write a custom security provider for SAP. My questions are: Is there any guidance on this topic?Is this supported (IHostableSecurityProvider not being mentioned in the SDK docs)Is it allowed to partially implement a security provider (throwing NotSupportedException's in selected methods). This is similar to ASP.NET Membership ...

I'm getting an error when I try to open a new SmartObjectClientServer() object. The string I pass into the SCConnectionStringBuilder object (that in turn passes the initialization string into the SmartObjectClientServer ctor) looks like this (I added some extra decorations to see if they'd ...

I just finished up a SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 upgrade on a large fail-over production cluster. I ran into a couple of issues that extended the upgrade outside the maintenance window and caused me some serious headaches. This may save you some time and sanity before upgrading your SQL Server Fail-Over cluster from 2000 to 2005... Read ...

DelegConfig (Delegation / Kerberos Configuration Tool) from iis.net A co-worker of mine (thanks Kevin) sent me information this morning on a tool for trouble-shooting Kerberos settings in IIS called DelegConfig.  This a 'must-have' tool for setting up Kerberos for your K2.net Web Server. This utility is a little ASP.NET v1.1. app you drop ...