Authentication through Active Directory and LDAP
While it is possible to authenticate Content Manager users both through Active Directory and through LDAP, SDL recommends against doing so on a single machine.
If you want to set up authentication through Active Directory and through LDAP at the same time, doing so on a single machine presents the following problems:
- Each setup requires its own Content Manager server instance with its own configuration.
- SDL Tridion Sites installers (and hotfixes, and so on) are set up to work with one instance only.
- You would have to manually keep any secondary Content Manager server instance in sync with the primary one.
For these reasons, to authenticate through Active Directory and LDAP, install and configure Content Manager server twice on two separate machines, once for Active Directory authentication, once for LDAP authentication.