How to Set Up NavUserPassword Authentication in Business Central.

Hi Readers,

In this article we will discuss steps to Setup NAVUserPassword in Business Central on-prem.

NavUserPassword is an authentication method that's handled by Business Central Server, but isn't based on Windows users or Active Directory. Each user is set up with a username and password that's configured inside Business Central only. The user is prompted for username/password credentials when they start the client.

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To achieve this, we will go through 3 steps - 

Task 1: Set up your Business Central user account with a password.

• Open the Business Central client.

• Go to the Users page, then open your user account.

• Under Business Central Password Authentication, choose the Review or update the value for password. button next to the Password field.

• Enter the password in the Password and Confirm Password fields, then choose OK.

• Make sure to assign required permissions.

• or you can use below powershell cmdlet to add user and permissions.

• New-NAVServerUser -ServerInstance <ServiceName> -UserName <UserName> -Password (Read-Host "Enter Password" -AsSecureString)

• New-NAVServerUserPermissionSet -PermissionSetId SUPER -ServerInstance <ServiceName>-UserName <UserName>

Task 2: Configure Business Central Server.

• Set the ClientServicesCredentialType to NavUserPassword.

• Set-NAVServerConfiguration -ServerInstance <ServiceName>  -KeyName ClientServicesCredentialType -KeyValue NavUserPassword

• Restart the server instance.

Task 3: Configure Business Central Web Server components

Configure the Business Central Web Server components to use NavUserPassword as the credential type.

• Set the ClientServicesCredentialType key value to NavUserPassword.

• Restart IIS Server.

Hopefully you learned something new in this article. You can also watch following steps below.

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Saurav Dhyani
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