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Configuring SharePoint 2010 with Kerberos Authentication

  Determine the application pool account that will be responsible for authenticating users.  Follow the steps below to be absolutely sure of the account responsible for running the site that will support kerberos authentication.  If SharePoint has already been configured verify your application pool account is, in fact, running the IIS application pool that supports the website where Kerberos is enabled Open the web application that will support Kerberos and make a note of...

Creating one Content Database Per Site Collection In SharePoint 2010 using Windows PowerShell

One of the most common problems I see in a client built SharePoint environment is multiple site collections comingled in the same content database.  While this isn’t the end of the world, it’s a problem because SLAs, security, and even back strategies are often assigned to specific databases based upon the needs of the users that will be using the site collections hosted in each database.  If a site collection is not hosted in the database that the admin intended because SharePoint sim...