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Published inJan 2014
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Stephen Redmond
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Stephen Redmond is the CTO and Qlik Luminary at CapricornVentis - a QlikView Elite Partner. He is the author of several books, including QlikView for Developers Cookbook and QlikView Server and Publisher, both published by Packt Publishing. He is also the author of the popular DevLogixseries for SalesLogix developers. In 2006, after many years of working with CRM systems, reporting and analysis solutions, and data integration, Stephen started working with QlikView. Since then, CapricornVentis has become QlikView's top partner in the UK and Ireland territories, and with Stephen as the head of the team, they have implemented QlikView in a wide variety of enterprise and large-business customers across a wide range of sectors, from public sector to financial services to large retailers. In 2014, Stephen was awarded the Luminary status by Qlik in recognition of his product advocacy. He regularly contributes to online forums, including the Qlik Community.
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Types of Directory Service Provider (DSP)


Even if we are not authenticating against LDAP, we can have another party authenticate and use one of the other mechanisms to pass that authentication through to QlikView. For that reason, it is useful for us to be able to look up users and groups in the LDAP directory and retrieve a list of them.

QlikView can have several kinds of Directory Service Providers (DSPs):

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Stephen Redmond

Stephen Redmond is the CTO and Qlik Luminary at CapricornVentis - a QlikView Elite Partner. He is the author of several books, including QlikView for Developers Cookbook and QlikView Server and Publisher, both published by Packt Publishing. He is also the author of the popular DevLogixseries for SalesLogix developers. In 2006, after many years of working with CRM systems, reporting and analysis solutions, and data integration, Stephen started working with QlikView. Since then, CapricornVentis has become QlikView's top partner in the UK and Ireland territories, and with Stephen as the head of the team, they have implemented QlikView in a wide variety of enterprise and large-business customers across a wide range of sectors, from public sector to financial services to large retailers. In 2014, Stephen was awarded the Luminary status by Qlik in recognition of his product advocacy. He regularly contributes to online forums, including the Qlik Community.
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Description

Active Directory

Connects to the Active Directory using LDAP calls—this is what we would have used by default in the Manage Users dialogs to retrieve users and groups. You can use either a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) here—for example, LDAP://domain.local—or just the NetBIOS domain name—LDAP://DOMAIN. If you do use the FQDN, the DSC will resolve the NetBIOS name (in this case, DOMAIN) and use that as the DSP identifier. This means that any user identified as DOMAIN\USER will be linked with this DSP.

Custom Directory

A Custom Directory is a user and group...