For many seasoned DBAs and system administrators, the double-hop authentication problem is a known issue. However, that doesn't make it any less of a pain to resolve. For those who don't know what I ...

Learn about OLE DB Driver for SQL Server properties and member functions that support service principal names in client applications. The following provider initialization string keywords support SPNs ...

This topic describes OLE DB properties and member functions that support service principal names (SPNs) in client applications. For more information about SPNs in client applications, see [Service ...

What is the problem: When the NAV Server and SQL Server are on two different machines, a connection between Role Tailored Client (RTC) and the NAV Server requires Kerberos. Kerberos uses SPNs to ...

I realized after reviewing the past few posts that I omitted a new piece of functionality introduced in SQL Server 2008 R2. This feature, known as Extended Protection for Authentication (Extended ...

A service principal name, also known as an SPN, is a name that uniquely identifies an instance of a service. For proper Kerberos authentication to take place the SPN’s must be set properly. SPN’s are ...