Active Directory - LDAP

Integrating IMS into the Enterprise

As enterprises are often built on Microsoft solutions, many organisations use Active Directory user directories to centrally authenticate staff and their working environments on the desktop.

Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services often used to centralise staff logins. Active Directory allows enterprise-wide authentication directories to be managed. Active Directory stores in formation about its users and can act in a similar manner to a phone book. IMS can integrate with Active Directory using LDAP interfaces over the network.

For IMS Corporate Appliance users, this means seamless integration of the authentication of potentially large user directories - and a single sign on solution for your Third Light image library.

For more details on the Active Directory module for IMS, please contact us and we will be pleased to help.

Note: IMS offers its own, internal, user database based on a UNIX architecture. The internal database is based MySQL and is often used in isolation to achieve a simple, self-contained installation. Neither Active Directory nor MSSQL Server are pre-requisites to run IMS.