DMA Operations Guide

Microsoft Active Directory Integration

 

 

 

Table 7-1

Fields on the Microsoft Active Directory page (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Field

 

Description

 

 

 

 

Conference room errors

Number of enterprise users for whom conference rooms

 

 

 

couldn’t be generated.

 

 

 

If you’re an administrator, this label is a link to the

 

 

 

Conference Room Errors Report report.

 

 

 

Note: If you don’t specify an Active Directory attribute

 

 

 

for conference room ID generation, the number of errors

 

 

 

equals the number of users.

 

 

 

 

Orphaned users/groups

Number of orphaned users and groups (that is, users

 

 

 

and groups that are disabled or no longer in the

 

 

 

directory, but for whom the system contains data).

 

 

 

If you’re an administrator, this label is a link to the

 

 

 

Orphaned Groups and Users Report.

 

 

 

 

Enterprise passcode

Number of enterprise users for whom passcodes were

 

errors

 

generated that aren’t valid.

 

 

 

If you’re an administrator, this label is a link to the

 

 

 

Enterprise Passcode Errors Report.

 

 

 

 

Active Directory Connection

 

 

 

 

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If this option is selected, the system uses serverless

 

FQDN

 

bind to find the closest global catalog servers. Enter the

 

 

 

DNS domain name. We strongly recommend using this

 

 

 

option.

 

 

 

If the system can’t determine the site to which it belongs,

 

 

 

it tries to connect to any global catalog server.

 

 

 

If that fails, it uses the entered DNS domain name as a

 

 

 

host name and continues as if the IP address or host

 

 

 

name option were selected.

 

 

 

The system’s Network Settings setup must have at least

 

 

 

one domain name server specified.

 

 

 

Check the Active Directory Integration Report to see

 

 

 

whether serverless bind succeeded and what the site

 

 

 

name is.

 

 

 

 

IP address or host name

If this option is selected, the system attempts to connect

 

 

 

to the Microsoft Active Directory domain controller

 

 

 

specified.

 

 

 

For a single-domain forest, enter the host name or IP

 

 

 

address of a domain controller.

 

 

 

For a multi-domain forest, we don’t recommend using

 

 

 

this option. If you must, enter the host name or IP

 

 

 

address of a specific global catalog server, not the DNS

 

 

 

domain name.

 

 

 

The Polycom DMA system can only integrate with one

 

 

 

forest. A special “Exchange forest” (in which all users

 

 

 

are disabled) won’t work because the system doesn’t

 

 

 

support conferencing for disabled users.

 

 

 

 

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