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Using the Active Directory Synchronizer
The FaxPress Plus Active Directory Synchronizer can be used to create new FaxPress Plus
users from existing Active Directory users. When the Active Directory Synchronizer is ex-
ecuted the first time, it imports Active Directory users from specified groups, and uses
them to create new FaxPress Plus users and groups. From the second execution on, the
Active Directory Synchronizer simply performs an update function. This update function
may add or delete users, or modify user properties information.
Active Directory users all have email addresses and display names, so all FaxPress Plus
user accounts created from Active Directory accounts will contain email addresses and dis-
play names as well. Active Directory user accounts without display names or email ad-
dresses will still be used to create FaxPress Plus user accounts, but will not be recorded in
the user mapping data file.
Certain modifications to Active Directory will not be detected by the FaxPress Plus serv-
er. When a user is removed from an existing Active Directory group, but still exists as an
individual user in Active Directory, the Synchronizer is unable to detect this kind of modi-
fication. This user will remain in its original group on the FaxPress Plus server. The Active
Directory Synchronizer will only delete users from the FaxPress Plus server if those users
are first deleted as individual users from Active Directory.
User Mapping and the Email Gateway Service
After importing Active Directory users to FaxPress Plus server, the Active Directory Syn-
chronizer automatically creates the User Mapping information required by the FaxPress
Premier Email Gateway. User mapping will be created whether or not the Email Gateway
service is started or stopped.
See your FaxPress Premier Email Gateways Guide for more user mapping information.
Configuring the Active Directory Synchronizer
To use the FaxPress Premier’s Active Directory Synchronizer service:
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you must join the FaxPress Premier to your network domain. Although Premier is
DHCP enabled, it will not automatically be joined to the network domain as part of
the setup.
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you must either identify an existing Active Directory group or create a new Active
Directory group (e.g., "FPP Users") that will be used to define the new users and
groups on the FaxPress Premier. Active Directory groups used for this purpose
should contain users only, rather than containing other groups. With the automatic
accounts generated by the server (e.g., Guest account, Terminal Services account),
using the default Domain Users Group for this purpose is not recommended.
To configure the Premier’s Active Directory Synchronizer service, follow these steps:
1. Log into FaxPress Plus as Administrator, or as a user with administrator privileg-
es.
2. From the Administration view, select the Embedded Services folder.
Right-click on the Active Directory Synchronizer and click Configuration.