With this option, Hudson authenticates the username and the password through Active Directory. For this to work, Hudson must be running on a Windows machine that belongs to the domain. (To run Hudson on a Unix system and have it authenticate against Active Directory, use LDAP.)

Hudson recognizes all the groups in Active Directory that the user belongs to, so you can use those to make authorization decisions (for example, you can choose the matrix-based security as the authorization strategy and perhaps allow "Domain Admins" to administer Hudson.)