Authenticated user: Windows should be only selected when using Windows Authentication in IIS (when set in Web.config or in IIS Manager). So when you are using IIS Windows Authentication mode, you don't see FileVista login page and logged in automatically according to the current logged on Windows user (or see browser's own login dialog for Basic Authentication). In this mode, you don't import users. You just need to create a FileVista user with the same fully qualified name.

 

There is “Import Users” feature to import users from AD. By importing I mean, FileVista needs to create the same users in its database so that they can login. This is usually done once when you setup FileVista and maybe when you have new users in AD. So in short, as of current version this needs to be done manually (in administration page on “Import Users” dialog) there is no auto synchronization. However, when you change a password in AD, it will still work in FileVista. Only user name and some other properties for display purposes are saved in FileVista database. So you would need to reimport a user if the user name is changed. As of current version AD groups are not imported but you can create groups in FileVista and add imported AD users to them.