Importing Users from Different Authentication Systems

You can import users from multiple different authentication systems, such as from a database warehouse and from an LDAP Server, into a single MicroStrategy metadata.

Each user that is imported into MicroStrategy from a single authentication mechanism is created as a separate user object in the MicroStrategy metadata. For example, if User A is imported from your LDAP Server into MicroStrategy, the User A object is created in the MicroStrategy metadata. If User A is also imported from your NT system, a separate User A object (we can call it User A-NT) is created in the metadata. Every time a user is imported into the MicroStrategy metadata, a separate user object is created.

As an alternative, you can import User A from a single authentication system (LDAP, for example), and then link the User A object that is created to the same user in your NT system, and to the same user in your database warehouse, and so on. Using linking, you can "connect" or map multiple authentication systems to a single user object in the MicroStrategy metadata.