Summary

Applies To

MachPanel all versions

Procedure

1) Open MachPanel Control Panel Website. You can do it by opening Configuration Studio from Control Panel Server Desktop, and then navigating to Control Panel Website. Finally click on the hyperlinked URL. Login with the provider credentials.

2) Navigate to Home >> Service Director>>Active Directory>>Domains. Click on Add New Domain, it will open a new page.

3) You can Edit exiting or Add more later if multiple active directory environments are to be managed. Once on Add/Edit page, set active directory related details like preferred domain controller, credentials for domain administrator etc:

• Domain FQDN: Enter the active directory domain name, example ess2019.local.
• Domain NETBIOS Name: Enter domain controller’s NetBIOS name, such as ess2019.
• Domain Administrator Login / Password: Provide here the login and password for the domain administrator account. It is recommended that you setup a special domain administrator account to use with Control Panel. When setting up domain administrator account, following points must be noted:

1. Do NOT Use default Administrator account. Create a new Domain Administrator such as 'Administrator2' and set here. If you use default administrator account this may result in problems later on when you modify password of the account. You will need to change the password in the control panel as well and sync with all remote servers again, otherwise you will lose connectivity with the remote servers.
2. Make the domain administrator;administrator2 member of Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, Exchange Servers, Exchange Organization Administrators, Group Policy Creator Owners, Schema Admins, Exchange Trusted Sub-System group for Exchange 2010\2013\2016\2019 and local Administrators groups.

• LDAP URL: Please add an LDAP URL here for the OU you want to sync \ create organizations.
• Enter comma separated IPs of Remote Server(s): If you do not have a module to integrate (exchange, Hyper-V, etc.) and only want to add Active Directory Domain to manage it, then install MachPanel Remote on the AD Domain controller and enter its IP here.
• Generate random GUID for OU name in Active Directory:  If enabled, OU name, Address Lists name, Address book policy name will be created using a random GUID like 3B844AA8-38B4-4ABD-B8CB-41ACC34BB1C2. Applies to Exchange 2010 SP2, 2013 or later, Lync 2010 or later, SfB, CRM 2011 or later, SharePoint 2010 or later.
• Append UPN suffix in User Logon Name: Select to append. If this setting enabled then domainName will be appended in SAM else not.
• Update User CN on UPN change: This checkbox configures the option to auto update CN as well in AD when UPN is changed via the panel.
  

• User Accounts options: You can set password policy for each domain such as "user must change password at next logon", password never expires etc.

• Nested OU Structure: If you want Nested OU structure for your Organization, check following Enable option and provide details.

4) After providing all the details click on save and it will add the active directory details in MachPanel. Adding active directory details is complete now.

Note: If you want to manage Active Directory Domain for managing OUs (Organizations), Users, Security Groups with any Enterprise Module, then install the MachPanel Remote Server on Domain controller and add its IP for management. This option is useful when trying to use ADSync Module.

Normally, after adding Active Directory Domain, the next step is to integrate any of the purchased Enterprise Modules such as Exchange, Hyper-V, Skype4B, CRM etc.

• To integrate Exchange in MachPanel please review the following KB article for further details:

• Integrate Skype4B in MachPanel

• Integrate SharePoint in MachPanel

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