Active directory setup

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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.
 

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


Configure IIS for Integrated Security

  1. Open the Internet Information Services Management from the "Administrative Tools menu" on the "Start Menu" or in the "Control Panel".

  2. 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.

  3. Switch to the "Directory Security" tab and click the "edit" button in the Anonymous access and authentication control area.

  4. 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.

 

 

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