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.NET Server Controls

The .NET Server Controls allow you to rapidly incorporate content and functionality from Crystal Enterprise into Microsoft Visual Studio.NET applications. Crystal Enterprise 10 provides visual and non-visual controls that contain the logic for common operations, such as authentication, folder listing, and report viewing. You can manipulate these controls in the Visual Studio.NET environment and insert them seamlessly into applications.

notification

You can set scheduling options that automatically send notification when an object instance succeeds or fails. For example, you may have a large number of reports that run a new instance every day. You need to check each instance to make sure it ran properly, and then send out emails to the users who need to know that the new report is available. With thousands of reports, it would take too much time to manually check the reports and contact the users who need the information. Using notification settings in Crystal Enterprise, you can set each object to automatically notify you when the report fails to run properly, and you can automatically inform users when new report instances run successfully.

NT authentication

NT authentication is a Windows-specific authentication method that enables you to use existing NT user accounts and groups in Crystal Enterprise. When you map NT accounts to Crystal Enterprise, users are able to log on to the Crystal Enterprise web desktop and other Crystal Enterprise applications with their NT user name and password. This eliminates the need to recreate individual user and group accounts within Crystal Enterprise.

NT Single Sign On

NT Single Sign On enables users to use various Crystal Enterprise applications without being prompted to log on. Users need only to enter their NT user name and password information once at the beginning of the NT session. Note that the Crystal Enterprise web desktop provides its own form of "anonymous Single Sign On," which uses Enterprise authentication, as opposed to Windows NT or Windows AD authentication.