Switching from SAML to Windows Authentication Mode

You can switch the File Access Manager authentication mode from SAML, using a local identity provider, to Windows username and password method, by changing the setup in the File Access Manager installer.

Set the authentication mode on the File Access Manager installer.
1. Open the File Access Manager installer on the sever the Web Client and the IIS are installed.
2. Navigate to the Select web authentication mode step and switch the option from SAML to Windows.
3. Click Next to the end of the installation wizard and click Finish.
Change the IIS authentication method.
1. Open the IIS Manager
2. In the tree on the left-hand side navigate to Current Server > Sites > Default Web Site.
3. Click on cdn, then in the IIS section click Authentication.
4. Disable the Anonymous Authentication (right-click and select Anonymous Authentication > Disable).
5. Enable the Windows Authentication (right-click and select Windows Authentication > Enable).
6. Repeat the steps above also for the following folders \ locations:
  - Identityiqfam > v1
  - Identityiqfam > v2
  - SecurityIQBiz
  - SiqApi
7. Restart IIS
Create an Active Directory identity collector, and make it the authentication store.
1. In the Admin Client create an AD identity collector under Application > Configuration > Permission Collection > Identity Collectors. Set a schedule for this identity collector.
2. Navigate to Applications > Configuration > General Configuration > Authentication Store, and select the identity collector you created above from the drop down list. You now have an Active Directory authentication store.
3. Run the scheduled task of the authentication store created above.
  
  Important: Clear the cache of the previous sessions of your browser.
Open the Website and sign in with any user from the authentication store. The SAML Login option and the Logout button will no longer appear in this system.


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