About Meridian user administration

Meridian user administration consists of three separate but interrelated disciplines:

• Windows user account administration as described in the topics in About Meridian network administration.
• Meridian user account administration described in the following topics.
• Meridian vault security administration as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide and the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise User's Guide.

Meridian user accounts and user groups are for use with workflow definitions and the project definitions of the Advanced Project Workflow module. These users and groups should not be confused with Windows users and groups or Active Directory users and groups. Although Meridian users and groups can be associated with their Active Directory counterparts, they are not the same things, but can work together to authorize content management activities. The Windows user accounts and groups are used solely for user authentication and security permissions outside of the Meridian vaults. For the remainder of this topic, the terms user and group refer to Meridian users and groups unless otherwise specified.

Meridian users and groups are defined in the Meridian Enterprise Administrator tool. They are defined in one place for use in any of the vaults managed by the same server. After they have been defined, they can be applied to workflow definitions inside the Meridian Enterprise Configurator tool as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide.

Note    When the Meridian Enterprise Administrator tool is started before users and groups have been defined, only one user account will exist; the SYSTEM user account. No groups will exist until they have been defined by a system administrator.