Enable Windows Authentication for LiveView

You can use Windows Authentication for logging in to LiveView. If you want to use Windows Authentication, you must follow standard IIS authentication methods.

NOTE: These steps are specific to Windows 7; they may be different for other operating systems. For further assistance, view Microsoft's documentation on this topic at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754628(v=ws.10).aspx

To enable Windows Authentication for LiveView:

  1. Turn on Windows Authentication:
    1. From the Control Panel, click Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off.
    2. Check Windows Authentication.
  2. Enable Windows Authentication in IIS:
    1. From the Control Panel > Administrative Tools, choose Internet Information Services (IIS).
    2. Select the root node from the tree on the left (or the LiveViewViewer node, if this server hosts multiple sites).
    3. From the right pane, in the IIS section, click Authentication.
    4. Enable Windows Authentication.
  3. Modify web.config to specify Windows Authentication:
    1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to ...\Power Operation\v2024\Applications\LiveView\Viewer
    2. Open web.config.
    3. Change the line:

      4. <authentication mode="Forms">
      to
      <authentication mode="Windows">

  4. Add roles to web.config to allow access to the LiveView application. For example, to allow the role (group) Administrators, add the following to the web.config file:

    <authorization>
    <allow roles="Administrators"/>
    <deny users="?" />
    </authorization>

Modifying the web.config file is an advanced topic that is covered on the Microsoft Web site:

http://www.iis.net/configreference/system.webserver/security/authentication/windowsauthentication

Additional information is available in the following Microsoft knowledge base article:

http://support.microsoft.com, and then search on kb/815179.