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11.6.5 Importing Groups and Users from Active Directory

To avoid creating user accounts manually, you can import groups and users from Microsoft’s Active

Directory to Authentication Server. You will need to install Active Directory on a Windows Server 2008

and set up users into groups the Active Directory before following the steps below.

Note:

1.

This feature only supports Windows Server 2008.

2.

User accounts in Active Directory need to be grouped into Groups settings first, because only

groups can be imported into Authentication Server.

1. Click

the

Account Setup button (No.3, Figure 11-24) and select AD Setup to access the active

directory setup page. This dialog box appears.

Figure 11-28

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.

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