What are the authentication and single sign-on (SSO) options provided with Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator?
Using Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator portlets, you can choose among several authentication schemes to deliver SSO to enterprise portal users. • You can configure your portlets to leverage your trusted environment, provided you have an existing SSO authentication system based on Kerberos or other SSO infrastructures, and both your WebSphere Portal and your SharePoint servers are trusted entities. • You can build centralized, enterprise access to your SharePoint site. In this case, the authentication is performed by WebSphere Portal. Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator portlets use shared credentials that are safely stored in a WebSphere Portal Credential Vault slot, and they are configured by the portal administrator. This scheme is particularly useful when you want to expose a departmental SharePoint site to a broader audience of corporate users. • In organizations with dual user directories, one for WebSphere Portal and one for SharePoint, you can deliver an SSO experience in which enterpr
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