BOBJ 4.0 and NTLM SSO

[Former Member]

Hello experts,

I need an info regarding the usage of NTLM as authentication for BOBJ 4.0.

One customer want to use this for mulitdomain authentication.

As for your experience is this possbile?

Please let me know asap.

Regards

[Alex47]

Hi Kir,

there's virtually no reason to use NTLM. Kerberos is also a Microsoft authentication protocol, and performs all the same functions, but far more secure and flexible. I encourage you to take a look at this link, it gives great reasons why to switch from NTLM -> Kerberos.

Kerberos performs all the same functions, including multi-domain auth.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc780469(WS.10).aspx

Regards,

Alex

[Former Member]

And there is no support for IIS in BI4.0

- Praveen Gali.

[former_member136842]

Hi,

no - its not. Only IIS Support is for Sharepoint. Check

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/10ccbdf2-139f-2e10-61a0-d4af67b6257b&override...

Page 9

Maybe in a further release the IIS support will be added.

Regards

-Seb.

[julian_jimenez]

Hi,

For BI 4.0 you will only find Java Web application servers. Using NTLM is not an option. It only works for client tools and .NET (IIS).

Regards,

Julian

[former_member136842]

Hi,

NTLM is a very old authentication method and we do not recommend it. Its based on Windows NT. We recommend the use of the Kerberos authentication with BI4. You can also use SSO with this authentication.

The official Configration steps you can find in the BI4 Admin Guide. But if you search the Forum you will find informations about some White Papers for this configuration which are even more helpful.

Regards

-Seb.