Appendix eA

Configuring Authentication Service on Microsoft Windows 7

John R. Vacca

This appendix describes the configuration of Windows 7 authentication service features that are relevant to IT professionals. The authentication service features included with Windows 7 extend to a strong set of platform-based authentication features to help provide better security, manageability, and user experience.

1 Configuring Windows 7 Authentication (Web Server (IIS 7))

Use Windows authentication when you want clients to authenticate using the NT LAN Manager (NTLM) or Kerberos protocols. The default authentication configuration for IIS 7 enables Anonymous authentication only [1].

Windows authentication, which includes both NTLM and Kerberos v5 or higher authentication, ...

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