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Changing Active Directory Providers

In some Active Directory environments it may be necessary to change the Active Directory Synchronization provider. As of Secret Server 6.0, the provider is LdapProvider2. Administrators can revert back to the previous provider by editing the web-appSettings.config file and adding two entries. By default, the file's contents are this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<appSettings>
</appSettings>

Adding two keys to the appSettings will allow you to change the LdapProvider. To change to the original LdapProvider, add the following keys:

        <add key="LdapProvider.AssemblyName" value="Thycotic.AppCore" />
        <add key="LdapProvider.TypeName" value="Thycotic.AppCore.LdapProvider" />

So your file's contents should now look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<appSettings>
        <add key="LdapProvider.AssemblyName" value="Thycotic.AppCore" />
        <add key="LdapProvider.TypeName" value="Thycotic.AppCore.LdapProvider" />
</appSettings>

Note that you will have to perform an IISRESET on your web server or recycle the AppPool for this to take effect.

Article ID: 39, Created On: 4/6/2009, Modified: 4/6/2009