Configuring APM Client Side NTLM Authentication
Introduction
There have been a ton of requests on the boards for a simplified client side NTLM configuration, so based on Michael Koyfman’s excellent Leveraging BIG-IP APM for seamless client NTLM...
Published May 12, 2015
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EmployeeNTLM is a challenge-response protocol in which the client proves it knows the password by encrypting something with it. The client doesn't actually send the password to the server (APM in this case), so indeed APM wouldn't have the user's password to use for other things like an AD query. In this case you'd have to use a static "service" account to perform AD or LDAP queries.