Active Directory

Disclaimer: This blog is not really new, as it’s just the migration of the technical content of our website – see further down for the French version.

NOTE: If you are interested in using AD with Solr, you may want to look at our Datafari software (still in Alpha version), which combines Apache ManifoldCF with Solr, so it eases this kind of integration. The code is available on google code: http://code.google.com/p/datafari/

In enterprise environments, enterprise search often needs a security aspect which is not necessary for standard web search. In order to assist you, we release here a small code in order to allow Constellio 1.2 (and probably 1.3 although we didn’t test it) to connect to an Active Directory in order to do the credentials check at authentication time. Here is how it works: Continue reading