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Entries for August, 2009

Login to Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 with another account / from another domain

A few days ago I and my colleague Wesley had a lot of problems installing of Team Foundation Server on Windows Server 2008 with a Separate SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint Farm. After a couple days of hard work we finally got it running. When we completed the installation we began testing it on our [...]

Team Foundation Server Installation Error: 28938

For the last couple of days my colleague and I have been installing Team Foundation Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 with a separate SQL 2008 and SharePoint 2007 server. The errors popt up like nothing I have ever seen before. One of the most annoying errors we came across was this one: “Error:28938.TFSServerStatusValidator: The [...]

Fully certified SharePoint Specialist

It took me long enough to get all off the WSS and MOSS certificates but today I finally passed the last exam (Configuring Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 : 70-631) and I have to say that that is one of the hardest exams for a developer. Know up to .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Workflow Foundation Applications [...]

Configure Kerberos authentication

A few weeks ago I tried to set up a SharePoint farm that uses Kerberos authentication. I always thought it was just a setting in SharePoint but infect it is much more than that. What is Kerberos Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol, which allows nodes to communicate over a non secure network to [...]