I kept getting this bloody ‘440 Authentication Timeout’ page in IE. And I would get it instantly, so there was no way it was actually timing out. A quick google on this error returned a half dozen pages of threads, with no resolutions. As a result, I figured I’d better blog this for future reference . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The root cause of this is the IUSR_<servername> and IWAM_<servername> accounts’ passwords being out of sync (between AD & IIS). Here’s the steps necessary to fix this. (And make sure to verify that neither of these accounts are locked out in AD! I missed that the first time around and spent an extra hour and a half trying to figure out why it wasn’t working! :^)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Open AD Users & Computers. Expand the Users OU, right-click on the IUSR_<servername> account and select ‘Reset password’ Reset the password to anything you want (however, it can’t be blank).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2) Open this User Account’s properties and verify that the account is not locked out :^) Also, make sure that ‘Password never expires’ and ‘User cannot change password’ are selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3) Repeat steps 1 & 2 for the IWAM_<servername> account. Close AD Users & Computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4) Open Internet Information Services (Start | Administrative Tools)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5) Expand <servername> | Web Sites<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6) Right-click on ‘Default Web Site’ and select Properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7) Go to the ‘Directory Security’ tab and click the Edit button under ‘Authentication & Access Control’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8) Enter the new password for the IUSR_<servername> account and click OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9) Enter the password again to confirm and click OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10) Click OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
11) Open a command prompt and enter iisreset<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12) At the command prompt, enter the following commands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
> cd c:\\inetpub\\adminscripts\n\n> adsutil SET w3svc\/WAMUserPass <password> (Where <password> = the password you entered for the IWAM_<servername> account in AD Users & Computers)\n\n> c:\\windows\\system32\\cscript.exe \"c:\\inetpub\\adminscripts\\synciwam.vbs\" -v\n\n> iisreset \/restart<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I kept getting this bloody ‘440 Authentication Timeout’ page in IE. And I would get it instantly, so there was no way it was actually timing out. A quick google on this error returned a half dozen pages of threads, with no resolutions. As a result, I figured I’d better blog this for future reference … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}