Importing users and groups from Active Directory

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Importing users and groups from Active Directory

BlueCielo user accounts and groups can be created either manually as described in the preceding topics or by importing them from a Microsoft Active Directory as described in this topic. The user and group information can be kept synchronized with the Active Directory to prevent double data entry. Because large Active Directories can be time-consuming to retrieve, you can cache the data in Meridian Enterprise Server.

To import users and groups from Active Directory :

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the System Management group, click USER MANAGEMENT. The Users page appears and lists the existing user accounts.
In the menu, click IMPORT. The Import User Groups page appears.
If the Active Directory server options have not already been configured:
1. In the ACTIVE DIRECTORY group, click CHANGE. The MICROSOFT DIRECTORY SERVER dialog box appears.
2. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Active Directory server options
Option	Description
AD server	The name of the Active Directory server that you want to import from.
User name	The name of a user account on the Active Directory server with permissions to read the Active Directory.
Password	The password of the user account.
Synchronize	Select an option to specify how often to synchronize the BlueCielo user accounts and groups from the Active Directory server.
Rename duplicate accounts	Enable this option to rename existing BlueCielo user account and group names if identical names are imported from Active Directory.

Click OK.

In the app bar, click IMPORT. A background task is started and you can continue working.

To cache the Active Directory data on the Meridian Enterprise Server server for faster access:

In the CACHE OPTIONS group, for the AD user groups cache item, click Build Cache. A background task is started and you can continue working.

To schedule the import of users and groups from Active Directory:

Configure the Active Directory server options as described in the preceding task.
In the app bar, click the SCHEDULE. The SCHEDULE dialog box appears. This dialog box requires the same input as the Windows Task Scheduler.
Configure the scheduled task to run when you require and then click SCHEDULE.The task is created and the synchronization will run on the configured schedule.