Exact Synergy Enterprise

How-to: Configuring Information Internet Services (IIS) for portals

Introduction

In Exact Synergy Enterprise, the login page has been enhanced with a video background for the reseller, partner, and customer portals. If the authentication has been configured with the Active Directory Controller, you have to log in with the details of the domain, for example, <domain>\<username>.

The two type of configurations that are supported for the login with the video background are:

ASP .NET forms authentication
Basic authentication (with Microsoft Windows authentication)

This document describes the recommended configurations, and steps required to configure the authentication in Internet Information Services (IIS) to enable the functionality.

Creating public user access rights

For public users to be able to access the new login page, the user “ExactWebGuest” will be used. Therefore, ensure the humres table in the Exact Synergy Enterprise database has a record with usr_id = “ExactWebGues”, and res_id = “-2”.

If the record does not exist, execute the SQL statement for the database (for example, via the SQL Server Management Studio) as follows:

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insert into humres (res_id, fullname, sur_name, usr_id, job_level, blocked,land_iso,ldatindienst,repto_id,comp,emp_type,emp_statd,emp_stat, UserLicenseType)values(-2,'ExactWebGuest','ExactWebGuest','ExactWebGuest',0,0,'ES',getdate(),1,'001 ','E',getdate(),'A',100)

insert into HRRoles (ID,RoleID,EmpID,RoleLevel) values (newid(),92,-2,3)

For example:

insert into HRRoles (ID,RoleID,EmpID,RoleLevel) values (newid(),92,-2,3)

<Default division Code> = ESE default division (e.g. 001)

Note: The “ExactWebGuest” is a professional user, and does not count towards the number of user licenses.

ASP .NET forms authentication

HTTP basic authentication

This configuration is recommended for the employee portal.

In this configuration, Exact Synergy Enterprise will use the login with the video background to authenticate the users (against the Active Directory Controller), and redirect the users to the Exact Synergy Enterprise portal using the HTTP basic authentication.

Currently, only the Chrome and Firefox browsers support this authentication.

To configure Exact Synergy Enterprise with the HTTP basic authentication, you will need to configure the following:

Create the local user or group
Create the public user access rights
IIS configuration for the basic and Windows authentication, and anonymous authentication for the login folder

These configurations will enable the basic and Windows authentications when the user accesses http://<server>/<synergy>/, and anonymous authentication when the user accesses http://<server>/<synergy>/docs/login/login.aspx.

IIS configuration for the basic and Windows authentications, and anonymous authentication for the login folder

This section describes the steps required to configure Exact Synergy Enterprise for the Windows authentication, and basic authentication in addition to the anonymous authentication for the login folder.

Go to IIS Manager, right-click Default Web Site on the left panel, and then click Add Virtual Directory.
Type the new virtual directory at Alias, and type the Exact Synergy Enterprise installation directory as the website content directory at Physical path, for example, C:\SynergyEnterprise.
Select the virtual directory that you created in steps 1 and 2 on the left panel under Default Web Site, and then double-click Authentication under the IIS section.
In the Authentication screen, right-click Basic Authentication, and then select Enable. Also, right-click Windows Authentication, and then select Enable.
Expand the virtual directory browser that you created in steps 1 and 2 on the left panel, click docs, and then click login.
Under the login folder, double-click Authentication in the IIS section.
In the Authentication screen, right-click Anonymous Authentication, and then click Enable. Right-click Basic Authentication, and then click Disable. Right-click Windows Authentication, and then click Disable.