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FeedbackServer comes out of the box with a complete Active Directory user provider letting you connect to your enterprise Active Directory server and use its user information instead of FeedbackServer's built-in user provider.
Once configured the provider will redirect all built in user features of FeedbackServer to Active Directory. For security reasons some features related to the users eg: password or profile management are not available.
To configure the Membership provider you will need to remove the original web.config and rename the existing web.AD.config.
Once you have renamed your web.AD.config to web.config you will need to setup following elements using a text editor like notepad to edit your web.config file.
- connectionString is the connection string that FeedbackServer will use to connect to your SQL Server.
- Setup following keys with your configuration :
- ADController is the ip or server name of your Active directory primary controller.
- ADUserName is the username required to connect to your Active Directory server.
- ADPassword is the password of the username that has rights on your Active Directory server.
- ADDomain is the domain of your Active Directory infrastructure.
- FeedbackServerAdminADUsername is the Active Directory Username that will always have administrator privileges in Feedback Server. Generally it must be the username of the person who first will access and configure Feedback Server. The name must be entered without the domain\ prefix.
- ADSearcherFilter is the Active Directory filter that is used to retrieve the user list in the user management interface of Feedback Server. You may change the LDAP query based on your personal needs. By default this query will return all users and groups.
- ADToDBSyncTimeOut is the time in minutes after which the local FeedbackServer user database is re synchronized with your remote Active Directory server. It is recommended to keep the value high to avoid network traffic, especially on high volumes Active Directory servers.
Configure IIS for Integrated Security
- Open the Internet Information Services Management from the "Administrative Tools menu" on the "Start Menu" or in the "Control Panel".
- Expand your server in the tree on the left until you see the Web site or Virtual Directory you want to configure. Right click the site or directory and choose Properties.
- Switch to the "Directory Security" tab and click the "edit" button in the Anonymous access and authentication control area.
- Make sure you that "Anonymous access" is not checked and make sure that the "Integrated Windows authentication" is checked.
Once you have configured the IIS and the new user provider, you may access FeedbackServer using any administration page of FeedbackServer. You do not need to access FeedbackServer administration pages through the default FeedbackServer login page as Active Directory authentication is handled by the browser.