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9.4.5 Importing Groups and Users from Active Directory
To create user accounts efficiently, you can import groups and users from Microsoft’s Active
Directory to Authentication Server. You will need to install Active Directory on Windows
operating system and set up users into groups before following the steps below.
Note: User accounts in Active Directory need to be grouped into Groups settings first as
only groups can be imported into Authentication Server.
1. Click the Account Setup button (No.8, Figure 9-14) and select Active Directory Setup.
This page appears.
Figure 9-23
2. Under Source Database, select Active Directory to enable the function.
3. To connect to the server with Active Directory:
A. Type the Server IP Address and the Port number of the server.
B. To log into the server using your current login information, select Connect with the
current login information. To log into the server using the login information of its
administrator, select Connect with administrator login information and type the
user name and password.
C. Click Test Connection to see if you can connect to the server with Active Directory.
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