Summary

This article provides a summary for managing Active directory Organizations and Users.

Applies To

This article applies to MachPanel v6 and above.

Active Directory Domain

To add an Active Directory Domain, Please review following KB:
http://kb.machsol.com/Knowledgebase/Article/50263

Active Directory Organizations (OU) Management

Organizational units (OU) are Active Directory containers into which you can place users, groups, computers, and other organizational units. An organizational unit cannot contain objects from other domains.

1. After the successful integration of the servers you can create Active Directory Organizations from the following path: Home >> Service Director >> Active Directory >> Organizations
2. There is new filter to search organization with Enterprise services enabled as shown below:
3. To add a new Organization Unit, click on Add Organization Unit button.
4. You can also perform bulk operations by selecting the organization as highlighted in green.
5. You can also Add AD User, Add Users in Bulk, Update users in bulk, Enable ADSync, create Security Groups on the single organization under Options. To add Security Group review KB: http://kb.machsol.com/Knowledgebase/Article/55552
   
6. You can also Sync Organization from Backend, using Sync from backend option. Please review more details at the following KB: http://kb.machsol.com/Knowledgebase/Article/54533
7. You can also add and manage Logon Hours Template using this interface

Active Directory Organization Management:

• You can also add Security Groups, Contacts and password policies for Active Directory organizations.

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Password Policies:

• Go to Home » Service Director » Active Directory » Organizations
• Click Manage in front of Ad organization Under Settings tab.
• Under Defaults
  • You can set Ad user Password settings

• Also you can 'Send Email Alert' for Password expiry to users

• You can also apply password policy (steps to create password policy shown below):

 

• Also below permissions can also be allowed, under Other configuration.

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• Click Password Polices tab to add new Policy

•  Now select password policy.

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Active Directory Users Management

• To add a new user to the active directory, navigate to the path: Home >> Service Director >> Active Directory >> Users.
• You can select users and remove, enable, disable, unlock as shown by yellow block.
• Click on Add User button to create a new AD user.