Hi All, I have question about Active Directory. We have developed a site it has 75K users on SQL server 2005 associated with roles, now we are thinking to change it to Active directory is it good idea or bad idea? if it is good how to migrate it. Thanks in advance. Chris...more >>

Hi I have a requirement for an external web site to be able to automatically log in to my ASP.Net web site that is managed using Forms Authentication To do this I have created a simple HTML Form, that submits a userId and password as a Form Post submission to my ASP.Net web site that can t...more >>

Hey there, I have a web service that returns a load of XML data which I wish to layout on a web page. I am not 100% certain of the best practice for doing this. One way I presumed that I could do this was by handling the Page_Load event of the web form, but unfortunately I do not seem to b...more >>

Using the tutorial: Protecting Connection Strings and Other Configuration Information http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/tutorial-73-cs.aspx The sample code works fine, but it does not work in my web application on my local machine or on a test server. When I try to encrypt my sql co...more >>

Hi there, I have setup a website to use the login control and have been following this tutorial, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/879kf95c(VS.80).aspx All of my member-only pages are stored in a directoy access that has annonymous access set to deny all. Unfortunate...more >>

My sceanrio is this on an asp.net 2.0 freamework. I want to use any of the data controls e.g Gridview,DetailView etc.. But i want some buttons e.g update,edit save etc to be enable or disabled based on if they belong to some security groups in active directory. I'm looking for the best options...more >>

Hello, There is a website in ASP.Net in which there is a File download option with URL English/Scripts/download.aspx?file=.... . Here the code substitutes the URL of the file to download. but If I substitute the URL of the file that is stored on the web server, then file such as...more >>

Hello All, I am trying to add forms authentication to an asp.net website. I am developing locally, than publishing the site to the web server. Everthing works fine on my local machine in debug mode. I am able to call up the login page, successfully authenticate against the remote active dir...more >>

I need to have a site that supports both of the above schemes. I have created the site and published it to a folder and have set up two virtual directories on the folder, one with Anonymous enabled, the other with Windows Authentication. I have a login/logout button that when clicked does ...more >>

Hello, I put some users in a group in Active Directory who can access an ASP.NET intra net site internally. When I go to the authorization tab on the ASP.Net configuration settings, and add the individual users, the users can get onto the site. When I add the group, of which the users a...more >>

I've seen other posts that seem to have a similar problem but none with a posted solution, so here goes again.. My application does not allow anonymous access, and integrated windows authentication is enabled. In my web config I have the following: <authentication mode="Windows"/> <autho...more >>

I'am running asp.net 2.0 on a 2003 serveur using a a domain service account for my application pool. I'm trying to connect to a serveur that have my webservices. My chalenge is that server have 3 IP address, one for each web site I need. The web services I try to access will be on the second w...more >>

Hi, I have a web application with the following web.config (I removed area not regarded to security). I have a local group called ITCoordinators that I want to give access to the existing folder Downloads in my root application. I have no problem to reach the root application, but when tr...more >>

If I encrypt the connection string in web.config, would I be able to copy the web.config file from one server to another. Would the encrypted web.config decrypt the same on another computer? -- Arne Garvander Certified Geek Professional Data Dude...more >>

I have a very simple site with forms authentication. Everything works allright when running locally when deploying it on the real server it doesnt. The thing is I get a dialog prompting me for credentials rather than redirected me to Login.aspx as it should (and does locally). Why? And about ...more >>