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Problem Note 18889: The SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office and front-end LDAP authentication
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When LDAP authentication is implemented as a front-end authentication provider, the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office (AMO) does not authenticate since it is bypassing the metadata server credentials. When AMO is working with data, it communicates directly to either a workspace or stored process server and since these servers use host authentication, AMO does not accept the LDAP credentials.
LDAP front-end authentication functionality was not initially supported in AMO 2.1.
You may see an error similar to the following:
"Could not authenticate user to SASMain".
There could also be error messages regarding invalid user id's or passwords.
LDAP authentication functionality was added with hotfix 21AMO03.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 2.1 | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 2.1 | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 2.1 | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 2.1 | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 2.1 | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 2.1 | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 2.1 | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 2.1 | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 2.1 | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | ||