Web application to use window domain accounts for authentication

Question

If you have a web application that will run inside a network, it makes sense for it to support windows authentication (active directory?).

Would it make sense to us

Answer 1

Basically windows handles everything, you never store usernames or passwords, AD and IIS do all the work for you

add this to your web.config

 
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To configure Windows authentication

1. Start Internet Information Services (IIS).
2. Right-click your application's virtual directory, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Directory Security tab.
4. Under Anonymous access and authentication control, click Edit.
5. Make sure the Anonymous access check box is not selected and that Integrated Windows authentication is the only selected check box.

You can then deal with the business or authorization using web.config again. for example

Read more here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998358.aspx