Active Directory Account Management Overview

Active Directory Managment Overview

What is Active Directory Account Managment?

A costed option

SIMS ID Cloud provisioning is provided as a Free of Charge service to all SIMS Customers.

The SIMS ID Active Directory Account Mangement component is a 'paid for' option that extends the provisioning functionality of SIMS ID to your Local Active Directory

Setting up Active Directory Account Mangement.

Once you have purchased the Active Directory Mangement componant you will need to carry out the following steps

Instalation and Configuration

Online Configuration

*Activate the Local Active Directory Account Managment Applicaiton in the Tile Store of SIMS ID

*Retrieve and set your secure configuration details for your local Active Directory Account Management Services

Local installation

• Install the Active Directory Account Managment Application

• Install the Active Directory Account Managment Password Handler Application

Online Configuration Continued

Having installed the local components you can then contiue to configure the Active Directory Account Management soultion in SIMS ID.

• Set the User Types you wish to automatically provision to your Active Directory

• [Set the desired Display Name formatting](Active-Directory-Account Management-Configuration-Display-Name-Format)

• Set the User Name formatting

*Configure any AD Attributes you wish to automatically provision against a user object with SIMS Data

*[Optionally set the 'Home' directory mapping and profile path for selected user types](Active-Directory-Account-Management-Configuration-User- Profile)

• Configure where in your AD OU structure users and groups should be populated

Activating the Service

• Activate the Directory Account Management Service

• Perform a one time intial Password Sync

Managing Multiple Active Directories

You can manage multiple Active Directory configurations using the SIMS ID Product How to manage muiltiple AD configurations