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1371920 - Error: Error updating Windows AD authentication properties: The secWinAD plugin failed to look up the account for the group "<GroupName>". Please enter non-local groups as DomainName\GroupName and local groups as \\ServerName\GroupName.

Symptom

While trying to add a Distribution Group for authentication in Business Objects it throws the following error:
Error updating Windows AD authentication properties: The secWinAD plugin failed to look up the account for the group "<GroupName>". Please enter non-local groups as DomainName\GroupName and local groups as \\ServerName\GroupName.


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Product

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform R2 ; SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0 ; SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1

Keywords

Windows AD authentication group adding problem , KBA , BI-BIP-AUT , Authentication, ActiveDirectory, LDAP, SSO, Vintela , Problem

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