Asp.Net Role-based authentication using Security groups in Active Directory

Question

I am attempting to do something simple (I thought) - securing my application using roles-based security using Active Directory groups in our Domain.

Specifically, I

Answer 1

You probably just need to add a RoleProvider to your web.config to tell the app how to do searches against AD.

Sample code from here.

<roleManager defaultProvider="WindowsProvider" 
  enabled="true"
  cacheRolesInCookie="false">
  <providers>
    <add
      name="WindowsProvider"
      type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider" />
  </providers>
</roleManager>