KB15531: How to enable Windows Credentials with NT Authentication enabled in MicroStrategy Web

Users may want to enable Windows credentials with NT Authentication enabled in Strategy Web. Users will have to authenticate via Windows versus authenticating through Strategy. Enabling NT Authentication within Strategy will not require users to enter their Strategy credentials when accessing Strategy Web. However, users will have to authenticate their windows user name and password when accessing Strategy Web. Administrator's can setup Windows IIS to always authenticate Strategy user's with their NT credentials when accessing Strategy Web.
 
To do this, follow the steps below:

• Right -click on the Strategy Virtual Directory in Windows IIS, as shown below:
  

• Under the 'Directory Security' tab, click 'Edit.'
• Check the 'Basic Authentication' checkbox and clear all other check boxes. The following warning will appear:
  

• Take into consideration the warning stated above. At user discretion, click Yes or No.
• If 'Yes' was chosen to the warning above, Strategy Web 8.x users will be asked to authenticate with their Windows (not Strategy) credentials whenever they access Strategy Web 8.x.
• Now when users try to access Strategy Web 8.x, they will receive the following pop-up:
  

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  (Instead of 'was-rlam', users will see the Web Server name where Strategy Web is hosted.)