Hi all,

My current intranet is set up to auto-authenticate employees.  I achieve this by disabling everything under authentication except windows authentication in IIS.  This exposes their network ID, which I grab and check against a table in SQL Server that stores non-sensitive employee information (network ID, first name, last name, location, etc).

This has worked well for me for years but I need to decide if this custom form of authentication can work with DNN, especially the new social modules. 

I have the ability to authenticate to active directory but would like to continue to use my current method because it allows me to store any employee information I like with total control over it.  Our network group won't allow me complete access to active directory to store additional fields and I feel this will limit me in the long run.

With this said, would it be possible to use my current, home grown authentication method with DNN yet still be able to use the new 6.2 social modules?  Also, would I be able to set up employees as content editors and content approvers using this same method?

I'd love to hear what others have done in a similar situation.

Thanks,
Mark