Use of LDAP group external authentication in Essbase v7.16

Hello Experts,
One of my customer wants an answer for his query -
They currently use LDAP external authentificaiton with userid only and would like to use LDAP groups. Is this supported in version 7.1.6 (Heard that It is a known limitation in version 7.x that LDAP / MSAD groups are not supported. MSAD groups are supported in System 9.x)
My Research:
I read in the Essbase v7 documentation the following 2 examples of using groups, under Essbase.CFG Configuration Settings > AUTHENTICATIONMODULE
Can you explain how this works
Thank you
Example 1
The entries in this example allow users in the group Engineers from domain yahoo.com to be authenticated on host Gorky, via port number 389, with a timeout period of 30 seconds.
AuthenticationModule LDAP essldap.dll 30 cn=Engineers, ou=Groups, dc=yahoo, dc=com@Gorky:389
Example 2
The entries in this example allow users in the group Engineers from domain yahoo.com to be authenticated on host 129.63.140.122, via port number 389, with a timeout period of 45 seconds.
AuthenticationModule MSAD essmsad.dll essmsad.lib 45 cn=Engineers, ou=Groups, dc=yahoo, dc=[email protected]:389
Regards,
Sonal
Edited by: 637223 on Oct 23, 2009 7:16 PM

I do not believe using LDAP groups is supported in 716.

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