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clear Element for providers for windowsAuthentication [IIS Settings Schema]

Note

For more information about the clear element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: Windows Authentication Providers <providers>.

Clears security providers for Windows authentication from parent configuration files.

Syntax

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements for this section.

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Element

Description

configuration

Specifies the root element in every configuration file that is used by IIS 7.

system.webServer

Specifies the top-level section group (in ApplicationHost.config) in which this element is defined.

security

Specifies the section group that contains security-related sections.

authentication

Specifies the section group that contains authentication sections.

windowsAuthentication

Specifies Windows authentication configuration.

providers

Specifies security support providers used for Windows authentication.

Remarks

For more information about the clear element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: Windows Authentication Providers <providers>.

Element Information

Configuration locations

Machine.config

ApplicationHost.config

Root application Web.config

Application Web.config

Directory Web.config

Requirements

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0