How to Enable Active Directory Authentication for Employee Portal Login 

Active Directory Authentication allows employees to log in to the Employee Portal using their Microsoft Active Directory domain credentials. This means the employee uses their domain username and domain password (the same ones used to log into Windows in the company network) for portal access.

Enable Active Directory authentication  in Employee Portal Setup

In Employee Portal Setup, General tab, Login panel, under Employee Portal Login Options, enable the Microsoft Active Directory Authentication.

Enable Active Directory Authentication in Employee Master

For those users that wish to enable Active Directory Authentication, go to Master ⇒ Employee Master, locate the employee, open Employee Master, EPortal tab, check Enable Active Directory Authentication.

Define the Email Address, the Email Address should be the user principal name in Active Directory.

Add IIS Web Server to Active Directory domain

In order to let EPortal to recognise your domain, the IIS Web Server Machine should be joined to your Active Directory.

Employee Portal Login

In Employee Portal Login, you can use either Employee No or User Name (i.e. your Email Prefix) as your User ID. (i.e. 3094 or derekfan). The password will be your domain password (i.e. the password that you login Windows).

Functions that supported AD Authentication in Employee Portal when entering password

• Employee Login

• Payroll History

• Mid-Month Payroll History

• Download IR56B

• Download IR56M

Functions that are not applicable or not functional after the employee is enabled AD Authentication

• Change Password

• Forget and Reset the Password

• Change the EPortal Password of Employees in Employee Master, EPortal tab