Creating Active Directory Users

Administrator User Guide

Create the Main Administration Elements : Teams and Users : Creating Active Directory Users

To create an Active Directory user, it is necessary to switch on Active Directory via the Project menu, by selecting Project > Active Directory (AD).

A Confirm message box is displayed asking the user to OK this action.

The default bar now shows the status of active directory as ON.

Note:

Once Active Directory is set to ON, project users will be authenticated against their Windows user accounts. The exception is that any user who knows the project free user name and password can still enter this to gain access to the project.

With Active Directory on, the Admin elements window now has AD Configuration as an Elements option.

To create an Active Directory User, set the Elements option list on the Admin elements window to AD Configuration User and click Create.

The AD COnfiguration User Creation window will be displayed.

The project users can be associated to Active Directory users by using the Authenticated User Membership scrolling lists.

All users in the project are shown in the Project Users list.

The Authenticated Users list show the users selected for Active Directory from the Project Users list.

The user adds project users to Active Directory users by selecting the user in the Project User list and clicking the right arrow button. The user is then added to the Authenticated Users list. To remove Active Directory from a user, select the user in the Authenticated Users list and click the left arrow button.

The Active Directory user’s default user name can be set by selecting an option from the Default User drop-down list. The Active Directory user’s default user name can be set by selecting an option from the Default User drop-down list.

A Domain Group can be used instead of individual Active Directory users.

To enter and check a valid Active Directory Group, select Group, enter a valid Active Directory Group and click Check. If found, the following message window is displayed.

If it is an invalid Active Directory Group, the following message window is displayed.

When an E3D application is logged into, the current user and their group membership are validated against any Active Directory User or Active Directory Group. If the logged in windows user and/or their group memberships matches one or more of these entries, a drop-down list is populated with all aggregated valid users for that login.

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For the default user, an active directory user takes precedence over an active directory group.

Click Apply to authenticate the users selected for active directory authentication against the entered windows name. The Admin elements window now shows the name of the newly created active directory user added to the names of the existing active directory users.