Active Directory Communication via LDAPs

Prior to this release, App Portal communicated with the Active Directory over a non-secure mode using LDAP protocol. Now with the enhancement of providing support to establish the communication of App Portal with Active Directory over secure mode using LDAPs, App Portal now protects the data transferred in an encrypted way over a network. It communicates over the default port 636.

By default, the Active Directory connection is configured using over the LDAP. You can enable LDAP over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS), also known as LDAPS. With LDAPS, you can improve security across the wire.

Administrators can enable the LDAPs setting through the backend by executing the SQL query (Use the SQL query from Note section) against the App Portal database.

Note:To use the LDAPs feature, an IT Administrator has to enable LDAP over SSL(LDAPS) for Microsoft Active Directory Server.

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To use the LDAPs feature, an IT Administrator has to enable LDAP over SSL(LDAPS) for Microsoft Active Directory Server.

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To enable the LDAPs setting, run the following SQL query against the App Portal database:

UPDATE WD_AppSettings SET Value = 'True' WHERE KeyName = 'UseSSL'