From the course: ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Authentication and Authorization

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Configure Windows authentication

Configure Windows authentication

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Configure Windows authentication

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- [Instructor] Windows authentication is another way of authenticating users before they use your application. One good advantage of Windows authentication is its security. Your web application will enjoy the same security policy that the Windows Operating System uses. And another advantage of Windows authentication is the user's credentials will not be transferred over the internet, so there is less security issues from the data transfer. So for then, let us create a new application which uses Windows authentication. To create a new project, click File, New, Project. On the left column, make sure that you have selected the Web section and from the middle one, ASP.NET Web Application (.NET Framework). Then you can change the name of the project, solution name, and the location. What's important in here is that the .NET Framework version needs to be greater than four point five because ASP.NET MVC five requires a .NET Framework version which is greater than four point five. Next, click…

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