Connection String Options
The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.
| Auth Mechanism | The authentication mechanism to be used when connecting to the Active Directory server. |
| Base DN | The base portion of the distinguished name, used for limiting results to specific subtrees. |
| Firewall Password | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall Port | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall Server | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall Type | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall User | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
| Follow Referrals | Whether or not to follow referrals returned by the Active Directory server. |
| Friendly GUID | Whether to return GUID attribute values in a human readable format. |
| Friendly SID | Whether to return SID attribute values in a human readable format. |
| LDAP Version | The LDAP version used to connect to and communicate with the server. |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
| Log Modules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
| Max Rows | Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| Password | The password for the distinguished name of the specified user. |
| Port | The port the Active Directory server is running on. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to Active Directory from the provider. |
| Scope | Whether to limit the scope of the search to the whole subtree (BaseDN and all of its descendants), a single level (BaseDN and its direct descendants), or the base object (BaseDN only). |
| Server | The domain name or IP of the Active Directory server. |
| SSL Server Cert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| User | The distinguished name of a user. |