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BasicTek · 04-18-2018

I'm Tim Ziemba Senior Engineer with BI Authentication. Over the years One of the issues the often occurs with authentication issues is mixing up like solutions because the errors, or symptoms, are very similar. SSO for instance can mean a hundred th...

BasicTek · 04-16-2018

Hi all, I'm Tim Ziemba Senior Authentication Engineer for the BI Authentication Team. This blog is to introduce a new KBA with many new options for... KBA 2629070 How to Securely Integrate BI 4.x with Active Directory and SSO in Distributed Environm...

BasicTek · 06-07-2017

Guided Answers Decision Trees allow us to provide multiple solutions based on questions. By combining a list of popular KBA's, tagging current best KBA's, and combining this with Guided Answers we have a single Decision tree that can solve upward...

BasicTek · 04-09-2024

To confirm your settings use KBA https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/3312900

BasicTek · 08-07-2023

If you use HTTP_HEADER, what will be passing the Header to BI? You can use any method, but the trick for the customer is that the credentials must be supplied. 2 methods where they are are with AD KBA 1965433 and SAML 2791348 trusted auth is compati...

BasicTek · 08-07-2023

QUERY_STRING is used to test trusted authentication, the other methods are used to determine where the username is coming from.Usually if the username is coming from AD we use TrustedPrincipal KBA 1965433, if it's coming from SAML (ADFS, AZURE) we us...

BasicTek · 07-24-2023

The LDAP failover for multiple hosts doesn't work until 90 second timeout, it's tends to work better to point the LDAP plugin to either LDAP load balancer or DNS round robin, but you can add as many hosts as you want if they are all pointing to the s...

BasicTek · 01-12-2023

Business Objects uses 100% Microsoft configuration for SSO (kerberos spnego) and the current guide is https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/2629070 If you can verify the service account is following that guide exactly (especially ...

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