Active directory and forms

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Sometimes its not possible to configure the web server to enable integrated windows authentication for user login. FeedbackServer provides a way to still have the benefits of Active Directory authentication by showing a web authentication interface without having to enable integrated authentication on the server.


In order to configure you will need to remove the original web.config and rename the web.AD.Forms.config.


Once you have renamed your web.AD.Forms.config to web.config you will need to setup following elements using a text editor like notepad to edit your web.config file.
 

  1. connectionString is the connection string that FeedbackServer will use to connect to your SQL server.
      
  2. Setup following keys with your configuration :

 

Once you have configured the new web.config, you may access FeedbackServer using any the login page of Feedback Server which will show you a login box that will authenticate the user against the Active Directory domain controller you have configured.

 

 

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