Who is this article for?

Users who want to learn to enable Windows automatic authentication.

No elevated permissions are required.

The following article explains the steps to enabling Windows automatic authentication.

1. Enabling automatic authentication

To enable auto authentication:

1. Launch Internet Information Services (IIS) on the Ideagen Quality Management Application Server.
2. In the connections pane, expand your server.
3. Select Sites.
4. Expand the website which contains the QPulse Web virtual directory.
   By default, this is the Default Web Site. 

5. Follow the steps for each directory below.

1.1. QPulse directory

In the site:

1. Highlight the QPulse directory.
2. Select Authentication from the navigation page.

3. Set Windows Authentication to Enabled.
4. Set all other authentication methods to Disabled. 

1.2. QPulse5WebServices directory

In the site:

1. Highlight the QPulse5WebServices directory.
2. Select Authentication from the navigation page.

3. Set Anonymous Authentication to Enabled.
4. Set ASP.NET Impersonation to Enabled.
5. Set Windows Authentication to Enabled.
6. Set all other authentication methods to Disabled. 

1.3. QPulseDataPoral directory

In the site:

1. Highlight the QPulseDataPortal directory.
2. Select Authentication from the navigation page.

3. Set Anonymous Authentication to Enabled.
4. Set ASP.NET Impersonation to Enabled.
5. Set Windows Authentication to Enabled.
6. Set all other authentication methods to Disabled. 

1.4. QPulseDocumentService directory

In the site:

1. Highlight the QPulseDocumentService directory.
2. Select Authentication from the navigation page.

3. Set Anonymous Authentication to Enabled.
4. Set ASP.NET Impersonation to Enabled.
5. Set Windows Authentication to Enabled.
6. Set all other authentication methods to Disabled.

1.5. QPulseIdentityServer directory

In the site:

1. Highlight the QPulseIdentityServer directory.
2. Select Authentication from the navigation page.

3. Set Windows Authentication to Enabled.
4. Set all other authentication methods to Disabled. 

1.6. QPulsePrint directory

In the site:

1. Highlight the QPulsePrint directory.
2. Select Authentication from the navigation page.

3. Set Anonymous Authentication to Enabled.
4. Set ASP.NET Impersonation to Enabled.
5. Set Windows Authentication to Enabled.
6. Set all other authentication methods to Disabled.

2. Updating configuration files

Once you've set up the authentication in IIS Manager, you need to update the configuration file.

To update the config file:

1. Browse to the Ideagen Quality Management directory.
   By default, this is found in the following location: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\QPulse\.
2. Open the Web.config file. 
3. Replace <identity impersonate="true" /> with <identity impersonate="false" />. After changing the config, it reverts to the original form upon restarting QPulse services, requiring it to be reset to False and none.
4. Replace <authentication mode="Windows" /> with '<authentication mode="None" />.