XMS Configuration Guide
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User Rights Management
The procedure below identifies the high-level steps involved in creating and configuring the
Authorization Manager’s Policy Store in
Active Directory
. Subsequent sections (identified
by the links within the procedure) provide step-by-step instructions for performing each
step. Please also refer to Microsoft’s documentation on user management and Active
Directory Service for more information.
To configure the Authorization Manager’s Policy Store in Active Directory:
Prerequisites:
The following are prerequisites for configuring the Authorization Manager’s Policy
Store in Active Directory. Please refer to Microsoft’s documentation on user
management and Active Directory Service more information.
•
Create a new domain user, which will be used to grant the Xmedia Server
access to the required domain resources.
•
A new organizational unit named
V
ERTIGO
within the Active Directory to house
the Policy Store.
1.
Open the Microsoft Authorization Manager.
See
“Open the Authorization Manager” on page 19-10
.
2.
Assign a Policy Store within the organizational unit.
See
“Creating a new organizational unit and assigning a Policy Store” on page 19-11
.
3.
Grant the newly created domain user administrative rights to the Organizational Unit. See
“Granting the domain user administrative rights to the Organizational Unit” on page 19-13
.
4.
Open the Xmedia Server Control Panel and stop the XMS Service.
See
“Stopping the XMS Service” on page 19-14
.
5.
Change XMS service credentials to the domain user and add the domain user as an
Administrator for the Xmedia Server.
See
“Adding the domain user to the Xmedia Server’s security credentials” on page
19-15
.
6.
Add the domain user to the security credentials of the Policy Store. See
“Granting the
domain user administrative rights to the Policy Store” on page 19-18
.
7.
Enable and set the Authorization Manager Configuration settings on the Xmedia Server
Control Panel.
See
“Setting the Authorization Manager Configuration settings” on page 19-20
.
8.
Start the XMS Service in the Xmedia Server Control Panel and populate the
VertigoXmedia application with the Vertigo Suite operations and roles.
See
“Starting the XMS Service to populate the VertigoXmedia application” on page 19-20
.
N
O T E
The instructions contained in this section are generic and intended to provide a very high-
level information on how to create and configure the Authorization Manager’s Policy Store
in Active Directory. Therefore, you will likely need to modify these instructions to
accommodate your specific network requirements or network configuration. Please refer to:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc786774.aspx