(12.01-en) Integrating Active Directory

Problem

Instead of creating and organizing UMS administrators manually you are looking for an easy way of importing them from your existing Active Directory.

Reason

You would like to import users and user groups from the Active Directory to the UMS, using the same AD group assignments and credentials as already defined in the AD.

Solution

In this paper we explain the best way of importing users from the Active Directory as UMS administrator accounts.

We will import users from the Active Directory to the UMS console in three steps by:

Configuring the connection to the Active Directory
Selecting the users to be imported and starting the import
Assigning permissions