How to enable Windows Authentication for Contact Expert Part IV - Servers
This guide describes how to enable Windows Authentication for affected server components in Contact Expert.
This article covers configuration steps needed for certain Contact Expert server components to work with Windows authentication. It does not cover configuration for connecting to external LDAP services via Windows authentication.
Step-by-step guide
Server components in CE are running as the Windows user account associated to the CE Server Agent Windows Service.
Cloud Adapter Server
- Create or reuse a CE service running user account in Active Directory, or local Windows user accounts if no corporate domain is in use. If you already created and configured an AD user account for the CE Agent Dashboard, than you can freely reuse that here. You don't need to create separate accounts for the various CE components.
- Create or reuse a new User Account in Contact Expert with the same name as this Active Directory user account.
- Assign the SuperAdmin role.
- Set the hierarchy level to Full Access.
- Open the Web.config file located in the [CE install path]\Servers\CloudAdapterServer folder (C:\Geomant\CE\Servers\CloudAdapterServer by default):
Change the value of the "ManagementService.UseWindowsAuthentication" property to true, save and close the file.
<add key="ManagementService.UseWindowsAuthentication" value="true"/>
Restart CE using Server Manager.
Related Articles
- How to enable Windows Authentication for Contact Expert Part I - CE Portal
- How to enable Windows Authentication for Contact Expert Part II - CE Agent Client Dashboard
- How to enable Windows Authentication for Contact Expert Part III - Address Book Service
- How to set up Contact Expert database connections to use Windows Authentication