Configure Windows Authentication for Data Sources

If you plan to use Windows™ authentication to connect to your data source, you must enable a data sources account by editing the Credentials.config file.

1. Open Credentials.config.
2. Locate the DataSourcesCredentials key element:

   <DataSourcesCredentials enabled="true" userName="" password="" />

3. Modify the key by making these changes:
   • Ensure that the name parameter is set to true.
   • Set the value of the userName parameter to the name of a Windows account that has access to the database server.
   • Set the value of the password parameter to the password of the Windows account.
4. Save the changes to the Credentials.config file.

You can now use CDM to connect to a data source using Windows authentication.