Windows AD Authentication for Business Objects BI Platform

Currently we are running our installation of Business Objects BI Platform on a Windows 2008 r2 server with Tomcat. We understand that it is recommended that in order to authenticate with Windows AD you need to use Kerberos authentication, and this is true for SiteMinder authentication from this application as well. If this is wrong please let me know.
Because of the security restrictions on our environment we can not run the needed scripts on the AD server in order to use Kerberos. But also because of the security restriction we have to use SiteMinder against AD.
Is there any suggestion of what we can do to get this authentication to work? Thanks ahead of time!

Kerberos is a very secure protocol, compared to others.
Creating SPNs and enabling the delegation option is required for kerberos to work.
These steps are suggested by Microsoft for kerberos to work and are not controlled by SAP BO.
Kerberos also allows you to perform SSO to the DB to view reports on demand.
However if you wish to use Siteminder, you can pull Active directory users using the AD plug-in and then use Siteminder with Trusted Authentication to pass the username authenticated by Siteminder to BO and BO can use the user name passed to create a session.
Note: As the user is already authenticated by Siteminder, BO would not perform the authentication again.
Please go thorough the below SAP Note, that helps setting up Trusted Authentication SSO.
1422248    Setting up Trusted Authentication in XI 3.x for Infoview and Opendocument using QUERY_STRING
1603002 - Setting up Trusted Authentication in BI4 for BIlaunchPad and Opendocument using HTTP_HEADER
Cheers,
Vikram.V

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