Confused About Registering and Troubleshooting SPNs? Help Is On The WayConfused About Registering and Troubleshooting SPNs? Help Is On The Way

Kurt Hudson over on the AD documentation team blog has put together a pretty thorough wiki on how to register and troubleshoot Service Principal Names (SPNs). An SPN is the way a service on a particular computer is located in Kerberos / AD. It’s always been a confusing subject for me, especially when you combine it with utilities like KTPASS.

Sean Deuby

May 10, 2010

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Kurt Hudson over on the AD documentation team blog has put together a pretty thorough wiki on how to register and troubleshoot Service Principal Names (SPNs). An SPN is the way a service on a particular computer is located in Kerberos / AD. It’s always been a confusing subject for me, especially when you combine it with utilities like KTPASS. Check it out; if it doesn’t answer all your questions, or you have suggestions, he’s all ears.

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