Enabling Windows Authentication - Advanced Design and Setup - Foundation 23.2 - Foundation 23.2 - Ready - Content Composer - external

Content Composer Advanced Design and Setup
Platform
Content Composer
Product
Advanced Design and Setup
Release
Foundation 23.2
License
To enable Windows authentication, complete the following steps.

This change affects the following Content Composer applications.

  • Content Composer Studio when launched with start parameter /credentials:input.
  • Content Composer Client when launched with start parameter /credentials:input.
  • Content Composer Web Client
  1. From the %Composerdir% directory, open Composer.Core.exe.config with a text editor that supports UTF-8.
  2. If the <serviceCredentials> element exists in the file, remove the element or comment it out.

    Example 

    <behavior name="STSBehaviour">
     <!--  <serviceCredentials> 
         <userNameAuthentication userNamePasswordValidationMode="Custom" customUserNamePasswordValidatorType="ModusSuite.Runtime.STS.LdapUserNamePasswordValidator, ModusSuite.Runtime.STSRuntimeService" /> 
      </serviceCredentials>  -->
   </behavior> 
...
  3. Save and close the file.
  4. From the %Composerdir% directory, open the UserRepository.config file with a text editor that supports UTF-8.
  5. Set the userStore attribute value to Windows.
  6. Save and close the file.
  7. Restart the Composer.Core service.