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Missing Windows Authentication provider For IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008

In case your Windows Server 2008 machine doesn't include a windows authentication scheme (see image below), do the following
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Open up Server Manager (one way to do this is by right clicking the computer node from within the start menu and choosing  Manage). Expend the Roles node. Right click the Web Server (IIS) and choose Add Role Services. You'll get the following wizard, just scroll down a bit and check Windows Authentication under the security node.

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If you've done everything right , you should also get the following option in IIS authentication pane

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Here is how to do this on Vista
Adding Windows Authentication provider into IIS 7 on Vista

Published Aug 17 2008, 01:43 PM by zroiy
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August 17, 2008 6:56 AM
 

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August 17, 2008 8:34 AM
 

Christopher Steen said:

Link Listing - August 19, 2008

August 20, 2008 6:29 PM
 

subha said:

thanks it helped

October 1, 2008 3:50 AM
 

Johnny Kelly said:

Legend. Why do Microsoft have to make things impossible to find in new releases of products. Cheers for the solution you saved my bacon!

December 1, 2008 10:22 AM
 

Joy C said:

Thanks for the pictures.  Couldn't find it anywhere otherwise!  

Ever so grateful,

Joy

December 6, 2008 12:40 AM
 

Aravinth said:

Thanks for the information

February 23, 2009 8:16 AM
 

Fred said:

It worked, thank you for the advice

April 6, 2009 6:05 AM
 

Lirakien said:

It worked too ! thx !

April 27, 2009 4:28 AM
 

abubakarm said:

hey thanks man that helped a lot !

July 23, 2009 9:56 AM
 

Dimah said:

Way to go brother; helped out.

September 16, 2009 11:08 AM
 

Giovanni said:

Thanks a lot, it helped me

October 23, 2009 6:44 AM
 

Bryan said:

Thanks!  This was a big help!

October 23, 2009 9:59 AM
 

Apiny said:

Thanks for showing the pictures as well.

October 29, 2009 4:51 PM
 

Chris Gaskell said:

How crazy!

Thanks for the tips.

November 12, 2009 6:29 AM
 

From The Bench said:

There are some subtle changes to configuring a Windows Server 2008 environment. I recently did a K2 installation

November 17, 2009 9:24 AM
 

ryan farahani said:

thanks for this post, it was a big help

December 17, 2009 6:47 PM
 

StanleyGu's Blog said:

I deployed my silverlight 3.0 application to IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 and could not find Windows

January 25, 2010 8:37 PM
 

AnilKool said:

Twiddled for this for an hour..Thx to google and roiy.. all i needed was a tip liket his

February 2, 2010 12:36 PM
 

Amd3202 said:

Do you guys require a restart? Didn't work for me...

February 25, 2010 10:00 AM
 

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March 2, 2010 12:26 AM
 

Anonymous said:

Great help, thanks very much!

May 5, 2010 7:04 AM
 

Amit Mistry said:

Thanks, It is very helpful.....

May 6, 2010 7:13 AM
 

Tom said:

Thanks for the help.

July 8, 2010 10:13 AM
 

Bala said:

Thanks dude. It helped me saving time...Dont why Microsoft hide stuffs in new releases.

October 21, 2010 3:35 PM
 

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