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Windows Authentication

FactoryStudio includes an easy way to You can easily integrate and leverage your company's Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) with FactoryStudio. Using AD DS, you can easily setup security and permission settings for users and groups within your project. 

For more information about ADActive Directory, view this link to a Microsoft article. 

To enable Windows Authentication in your project, please go to Info>Project>Redundancy and select the checkbox “Windows Authentication”.

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When using Windows Authentication, a project's user management is disabled and is controlled by Windows. The project will use the Windows user that is logged into the computer will be the one used by the project. 

When you are using client instances, the server computer is the one that will validate the user for the client. Also, the The server computer needs to have the same Windows user as the one that is logged into the client computer needs to exist on the server computer and , and they must both be in the same domain group. 

After the user validation, the user’s Windows group will determine which project Security Permission will be used. It will search in the project Security Permission for the same Windows Group name. If it finds the exact same name, the Security Permission will be used in the project for the logged in User. If any names do not match, the Permission Guest will be used.

It is important You need to verify which port is being used in the project for the Windows Authentication. By default, clients will use the 3102 port. However, this can be changed in the command line or URL when starting a client display. 

Example of the TSmarClient TSmartClient URL using Windows Authentication:

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To enable the LDAP Server in FactoryStudio, please go to Info>Project>Settings. Then, type the LDAP server's name in the AD/LDAP Server field.

For To integrate the integration of the LDAP Server, any extra customization in the project is needed except for the LDAP Server name in the Info>Project>Settings.the only customization that you need to do is use the AD/LDAP Server under Info > Project > Settings. 

The project Client.LogOn() method in the LOGON page will work properly after enabling the LDAP Server.

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