Configure Insight to use Windows authentication
Follow the steps below to configure Insight to use Windows authentication for each desired Insight application: Views (to view the dashboards), Admin Console, Studio, Data Loader, or Themes and Formats.
- In Admin Console, on the Documents Tree click Authentication.
- In the main panel, select the required application from the drop-down list.
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For
User properties are obtained from the
environment, select
Windows.
Note Selecting Windows changes the authentication type of the web application in the corresponding Web.config file next time the user launches the application. If Windows authentication is not properly defined, the user maybe locked out from the application. For this case, check the section
Recover from a Lockout
in the Kofax Insight Installation Guide. -
Select either
External database to use
your custom database and perform queries to map the user role, or select
Fixed values to compare
Active Directory session values to map the user role.
Fixed values
is a more common option. - Save the changes.