Admin Console > Authentication > Windows authentication

Windows authentication

For all Insight applications, you can use Windows Active Directory (AD) authentication, which is checked only once when the user logs in.

To use Windows (Active Directory) authentication in Insight, ensure that you selected the respective check box when performing the installation, and then follow these steps.

  1. Check and configure your IIS environment.
  2. Configure Insight to use Windows authentication.
  3. Provide the user identifier (UID).
  4. Define role mapping with fixed values or external database.

    • For fixed values: IIS provides authentication and when Insight gets authenticated, it starts to use the Active Directory session parameters to map the role by comparing it to a fixed value. This is the most common way of authentication.

    • For external values: You can use the Active Directory session value and query your custom database to map the role. This is an external value mapping.