In a previous
post I shared some thoughts regarding changes to authentication providers in
SharePoint 2010. As I worked through the issue of removing Claims/FBA and
reverting to NTLM I discovered a number of issues that manifested themselves in
strange ways. The first problem I encountered was the inability for a Farm
account to make changes to the Authentication Providers settings in Central
Administration. The System Account couldn't even view the dialog – each attempt
resulted in a 403 error. This was bad news as a lot of things happen behind the
scenes when changing authentication settings in this dialog – not the least of
which is propagation of changes to all the web servers. This meant I would have
to undo all of the Claims settings manually and repeat them on each server. Not
my idea of a fun afternoon...
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