Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Authentication Problems by using of NTLM - Damir Dobric Posts - developers.de

While working at solving the infamous error message:
The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Ntlm'. The authentication header received from the server was 'NTLM'.
I came across the following article:


Authentication Problems by using of NTLM - Damir Dobric Posts - developers.de:

unfortunately, this isn't exactly the same issue, at the end, my problem was fixed by enabling cookies in app.config. it seems that when accessing a web service behind a ISA web farm and the infinity settings is set to by cookies, we will need to enable cookies in the app.config to be able to access the web service correctly, which in turn, is not hard to understand.

Friday, March 9, 2012

How to re-produce the "black screen with cursor before login" issue

I came into this two days ago and it has given me a really hard time to figure out a fix.
it turned out though, the cause of my issue was probably bit different: I have two video output from the computer connect to the same monitor, one of them via a KVM. this setup had been working for a while but somehow when I rebooted my PC this time, I only get this infamous black screen death symptom, it is only after I powered off one of the monitor that I figured out that's the cause...

Disable Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Visual Studio Subscription (MSDN)

I use a visual studio pro subscription which comes with $150 azure cloud credit, for some reason Microsoft Defender for Cloud was turned on ...