Active Directory Configuration

 

You can configure to authenticate the requester login with the active directory (AD).

Note: Ensure that you have already imported the requesters from active directory, before you start configuring the AD Authentication. A user account should be available in FacilitiesDesk application to authenticate the account from the active directory.

  1. Click the Admin tab in the header pane.

  2. Click the Active Directory icon under the users block.

Configuring the Active Directory

 

By default the AD authentication will be disabled. Click the check box, to enable AD authentication.

 

"Pass-through" Authentication [ Single Sign-On ]

 

On enabling single sign-on, FacilitiesDesk plus directly authenticates your windows system user name and password . Hence you need not login over again to enter FacilitiesDesk plus.

 
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Enabling "Pass-through" Authentication

 

After importing all the users from the active directory you can enable single sign-on

Select the Check box to activate single sign-on. By default you will only be able to login as a guest. The administrator should select the supervisors from the requesters list to provide you with the supervisor role.

 

Importing Requesters from Active Directory

  1. Click Import Requesters from Active Directory link. This opens the Import From Active Directory page.

  2. Select the Domain Name from the combo box. This is a mandatory field. You can manually add the domain name by clicking the icon beside the field. Enter the domain name in the field provided and click Save.

  3. Specify the Domain Controller name. Ex: winmaster. This is a mandatory field. If you have specified the domain controller name, user name & password in the domain scan list, then they will get populated automatically. Else,

  4. Specify the Login name & Password. Both are mandatory fields.

  5. You also have an option to select the fields to import from the active directory. The unselected fields will not be imported.
    Click Import Now! Button. This opens the import wizard page, which displays the various Organizational Units (OUs) available in the domain.

  6. Select the specific OU to import users from that particular OU by enabling the check box.

  7. Click Start Importing button to import the requesters. After importing the requesters you get a report on successful and failed import.

  8. Click Close Window.

Note: While importing the requesters from the Active Directory, the existing requester data will be overwritten.

 

Schedule AD import

  1. You have an option to schedule Active Directory import in specified number of days.

  2. Select the Schedule AD import check box. Specify the number of days in the text box. Requester details will get imported automatically once in specified number of days.

  3. Click Save Schedule button to be in sync with the active directory.

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