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If you are getting the error

"The port specified has already been chosen.  Please choose a different port."

when trying to configure the Central admin then you may find that the issue comes from your machine name.

 Building a Demo SharePoint Environment I was encountering the issue. I was stumped with the above error and no matter what port I tried I could not get it to work.

 I foudn the problem when working through the logs.

06/26/2008 16:07:21  1  INF                Searching for a duplicate site http://MOSSDEMO#2:11000/
06/26/2008 16:07:21  1  ERR                Found a duplicate site http://mossdemo:80/#2:11000/

 It looks like the # is used as a delimiter and throwing the everything out. I renamed the machine and all sweet.

And here is some information that I have gathered from Dr Google regarding troubleshooting kerberos.

http://csharpzealot.com/blogs/kiwiland/pages/kerbero-troubleshooting.aspx

Who am I? Well I am an Infrastructure Consulting working in Perth, West Australia. I have almost 20 years experience in the IT industry and broke my teeth in on working with DOS 3 and everything in between. Those were the days having to manually configure IRQ's and DMA ports just to get your sound card working and 3D games involved 2D with perspective.

My skill set now falls in-between anything and everything and currently seems to have a focus on SharePoint. My contribution to the IT industry is as a problem solver. Most of the articles you will find here are based upon questions that have been raised in my role and Dr Google has been unable to resolve.

 Anyway, enough about me and onto why you are here.

 Answers to the universe or there abouts.

 Paul