Hi All,

Are there any gotchas to integrating msolap.asp with siteminder?
Is it even possible? Or even an issue?

Thank you.

Chris Brandsma

SiteMinder is a good end-user authentication mechanism. It authenticates
users, but does not change underlying NT credentials used by the
application. It continues to run anonymously. However Analysis Services
requires NT credentials to work properly. So yes, you can adjust whether or
not a particular virtual directory can be access by SiteMinder, but you can
not impersonate that user with NT credentials . . . that is a limitation of
SiteMinder and a requirement for Analysis Services. Thus it is very
difficult to integrate the two together like most users want.

If you can share with us how you are using SiteMinder and what your
requirements are, we can help guide you better, but don't get your hopes up
:-)

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"Chris Brandsma" <chris.brandsma (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

We are using SiteMinder to authenticate users from outside our
firewall so that we can use Dimension level security between people
connecting. Our front end is ProClarity (web server) and we are
probably going to be using the MSOLAP.asp driver.

So if everything is anonymous, that will be a problem. That means I
am going to need a way to spoof NT Authentication with Site Mnider.

Unfortunaly, not using Site Minder is not an option.

"Dave Wickert [MSFT]" <dwickert (AT) online (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote