Integrating Internet Authentication Server on SBS isn't as easy as I expected
So it seems I came across a wall today. Trying to get an IAS extension to load in Internet Authentication Server (IAS) on SBS2003 seems to fail. A bunch of different issues ranging from permissions for EventLog access for IAS to the extension DLL code not even loading, I burnt a LOT of time today trying to get this working.
I did complete the code for the IAS extension framework though. That was a lot of good progress. I plan to ship a RADIUS test DLL for RWW-Guard later this week, once I get this deployment issue worked out. And thats an extra benefit for my RWW-Guard users during testing.
So whats next? It's not worth the expense to spend the next day or two trying to figure out this problem. Valuing my time, I will call Microsoft PSS and spend the money to get them to tell me why the heck IAS on SBS acts this way. Even using the default samples in the SDK seem to fail on SBS. No idea why. Hopefully they can help me figure it out so I can get back on track.
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I had similar experiences when I tried to get SMTP event sinks to do this or that, but when I tried PSS, it did not help. As there was nobody competent here in [Eastern European country] with SMTP event sinks, they promised to forward my case to the relevant place and of course I never heard back.
I had much better success with the Microsoft ISV Buddy Program: our buddy forwarded our questions to the devs directly and that eventually helped. Too bad that only using this connection with Microsoft we could get someone to work with us in several cases.
Posted by: Peter | August 22, 2006 01:10 AM
Ya, my ISV buddy was Robert Scoble, who recently left Microsoft. And I haven't been assigned another.
As a Microsoft MVP though, I have some back channels which I believe I can leverage if I don't get satisfaction from PSS. If they can't help me, they won't charge me either.
Guess we'll find out in an hour or so :)
Posted by: Dana Epp | August 22, 2006 07:27 AM
You had a famous buddy :)
Anyway, you can write to ISV Buddy Team anytime and get another buddy (http://msdn.microsoft.com/isv/isvbuddy/), they are very responsive.
Posted by: Peter | August 22, 2006 08:23 AM