How To: Speed Up Active Directory Lookups

Version Affected: All

 

Overview

When using Active Directory for authentication and profile data lookups, you may see slow lookup speeds, which show up as slow login times. This article covers steps that can help speed this up.

Speed Up Active Directory Lookups

• On the realm's Data tab, switch Validate User Type from Search to Bind.
  
• Confirm every domain controller used by SecureAuth meets SecureAuth's network communication requirements for Active Directory.
• Confirm there are no decommissioned domain controllers that still have DNS entries in your environment.
• If you have a domain controller dedicated to SecureAuth, reference it by IP address rather than by domain name.

SecureAuth Knowledge Base Articles provide information based on specific use cases and may not apply to all appliances or configurations. Be advised that these instructions could cause harm to the environment if not followed correctly or if they do not apply to the current use case.

Customers are responsible for their own due diligence prior to utilizing this information and agree that SecureAuth is not liable for any issues caused by misconfiguration directly or indirectly related to SecureAuth products.