Feedback Portal supports authentication with: TeamPulse provides an easy way to manipulate the first two options. For the configuration of the external providers you can read Using External Providers (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Live ID) in TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal. Go to Settings -> Ideas & Feedback Portal -> Authentication Settings. With windows credentials people use their account from the active directory of the company, organization, etc. When creating users which will use windows credentials the Username and Domain should match the one from the active directory. Forms authentication allows you to use Feedback Portal with users different from windows users. This way you can include people into projects that are not in the company but are related to a project or people that are not with the same domain without having to worry about VPNs, etc. Changes will take effect a few minutes after they are saved.
Only users that have Server Administrator Role enabled can access the Administration site and therefore can enable or disable authentication methods - see Managing Server Administrator Role.Manage Feedback Portal Authentication
How to change authentication settings?
Windows Credentials
Forms Authentication
Changing that option affects only the Feedback Portal. (There is a separate option for the main TeamPulse application - see Manage TeamPulse Authentication.)
