New on Dynamics CRM 2013, Unified Service Desk, aka USD, is a composite application framework for the development of call center and, of course, service desk, applications.
The application has it's own login form. While very flexible for development scenarios, it's not what I'd expect to have on a production environment - for instance, it asks for the address of the CRM instance that you are going to connect to.
So far, I haven't found any way to change this login form.
The login form is of the Unified Service Desk client application, and cannot be changed. Moreover, Unified Service Desk requires an instance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, so the login form will always prompt you to specify the connection information to a CRM instance where you have deployed the core USD solutions (DynamicsBase and UII). The things that you can customize in the agent desktop are the features and layouts within the application.
You can however configure the sign-in experience to pre-populate values in the sign-in dialog box. For more information, see the Configure sign-in information section in the Connect to CRM instance using the Unified Service Desk client topic.
Unified Service Desk uses the XRM tooling common login control to define the login form. If you are building your "own" Windows client application for CRM, you can use the XRM tooling common login control, which provides The code for CRM authentication, credential storage and retrieval, and diagnostic logging so that you can quickly leverage these capabilities in your Windows client applications for CRM. More information about this: Use the XRM tooling common login control in your client applications.
Thanks,
Vivek
There was a login control provided in XRM.Tooling.connector namespace. This might be a start point to give it a thought..
Please refer to ..https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dn689071.aspx
You can default the configuration information for the connection experience in USD. The documentation on how to do that is in the Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector SDK Doc's. Effectively you need to add the default settings to the UnifiedServiceDesk.exe.config before you provide the client to your users. that will preload the dialog with connection information, and in the case of OnPremise / AD it can attempt an autologin and never show this dialog.
Also,
Regarding the comment above about storing passwords for login. USD does do this. it uses the Windows Credential vault to store the Password data and other encrypted stores to store other aspects of its configuration. The Windows Credential vault can be managed by Windows Admin's and flushed if necessary.
You can also tell USD to not store passwords with a setting in the UnifiedServiceDesk.exe.config file. The byproduct of which is that the user is required to key their password each and every time the shell connects to CRM.
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I am looking for a bit of direction here. I am building an ASP.NET Core 3.1 web interface to an existing jira tool that does some queries and presents status. For authentication, my calls to the server that retrieve data need proper jira credentials to operate. However, the API I am using never establishes a connection via logging directly into jira. It opens a connection in the code with the passed credentials.
So my question is, what is the proper way to do this in ASP.NET Core 3.1? I don't need someone to do all the work for me, just point me in the right direction. in WPF, I simply had the user enter their name and password and I established the connection object at startup.
Check out these docs. The user shouldn't be putting in their Jira creds in your app.
OAuth 2.0 (3LO) for apps
The app directs the user to an Atlassian screen that prompts them to
grant access to their data on the Atlassian site. The screen displays
the access being requested in the Atlassian product.
The user grants (or denies) access to their data on the Atlassian
site, via the screen.
The user is directed back to the external service. If the user
granted access, the external service can now access data (within the
specified scopes) from the Atlassian site on the user's behalf.
I work in a web based application in Lotus Notes. Suddenly, the login page is skipped and it is directly going to functionality. What may be the reason? Is it a settings issue?
Two possible reasons:
You have granted the "Anonymous" user access to the application.
Verify the ACL of the database.
You have some sort of SSO solution in
your company that logs you in automatically. (LTPA token on the IBM
WebSphere plugin for IIS, for example).
I assume you are testing your application on an actual Domino server, and are not using the "preview" function of Domino Designer.
I am new to windows azure development.
I am developing an application for hosting online tests.
This application needs to have multiple authentication options like Windows live ID, Facebook etc.
It also needs to have default form based authentication fed by the database in back end (simple User name and Password match).
Based on the authentication mechanism different permissions will be available to the user.
Can anyone please suggest how i should proceed on this?
Thanks
Do you really need forms authentication, or do you just need an application specific store where people can use a credential specific to your app?
I'd suggest researching Windows Azure Active Directory and Windows Azure Access Control Services together. You may create either an AD tenant for your application store and use it as an Identity Provider for ACS or you could host your own Secure Token Service and Identity Provider which uses your backend database as the user store also registered with ACS. This means that all of your authentication goes through the same process and allows for you to have your own user store, plus the social Identity Provider capability.
The key here is that you want try to avoid having forms authentication AND Social, but rather a mechanism where multiple Identity Providers can be used, including one of your own.
As Gaurav stated there are a ton of resources out there for this:
Understand the difference between WAAD and ACS.
Provisioning an Azure AD Tenant as a Identity Provider in ACS
Windows Azure Identity
There are also many blogs and MSDN documents talking about how to set these up.
If you start with the default "ASP.net MVC4 Web Application" template in Visual Studio you get a web application mini-sample with an AccountController that supports local and 'social' accounts out of the box. See documentation here. It is based on DotNetOpenAuth (a fantastic lib with terrible documentation) and a Microsoft implementation of an special MembershipProvider which lives in WebMatrix.WebData.
Regarding the Azure Access Control Service 2.0: I have no idea what the status of this service is but it looks to me as if MS itself tries to discourage developers form using this service since it was to deeply hidden somewhere under Windows Azure Active Directory in the documentation.
I have a Sharepoint 2010 application with mysites, therefore I use User profile sync service.
I changed the authentication method from windows to claims based ( choosing forms), and made necessary updates on web.config and run the commands on powershall, so I am using LDAP.
My application works with forms based authentication now, no issues, but I can not authanticate to mysites as my user name format has changed from domain/username to
One option is to somehow map new ldap formatted user and windows ad users (do not know how??), or I need to create a new connection on the user profile sync service to connect to ad with forms authantication and import users with new format too (failed to do so, any idea what needs to be configured on domain controllers to do that? ). Although, this will cause that users would get 2 different mysites if they login with windows or forms based auth.
Any idea is appreciated.
Thanks.
You need to use Move-SPUser command to make that work. For more info check the MSDN Documentation.
We are looking to host our product on Azure- the intent behind using Azure is that we get to focus on the core product, and are fine with the standard cloud features that Azure offers without needing to understand too much of the internals- not exactly the power users!
One thought was that if Azure had an authentication functionality- profiles, logins, password reset/ reminder etc, it would save us time from building what is essentially a commodity
Any guidance on this?
Azure offers the Access Control Service, which is a Federated Authentication service. It's already preconfigured with support for Live ID, Google and Yahoo authentication, but you can also add your own security token service (such as ADFS).
Windows Azure does not have a built in login feature. However,App Fabric Access Control Service(ACS) does; see the ACS tutorial here for example usage.