Polycom 3725-76302-001LI manual Active Directory Integration Procedure

Microsoft Active Directory Integration Integrations with Other Systems

Table 7-1	Fields on the Microsoft Active Directory page (continued)
Field		Description
Conference directory		The name of the Active Directory attribute that contains
attribute		the conference passcodes. In choosing an attribute,
		remember that passcodes must be numeric.
		The attribute must be in the Active Directory schema
		and preferably should be replicated across the
		enterprise via the Global Catalog server mechanism.
		But if the attribute isn’t in the Global Catalog, the system
		queries each domain controller for the data.
		Leave this field blank if you don’t want the system to
		create conference passcodes for the enterprise users.
Maximum characters		Desired length of conference passcodes. The Polycom
used		DMA system strips excess characters from the
		beginning, not the end. If you specify 7, the passcodes
		will contain the last 7 numeric characters from the Active
		Directory attribute being used.

See also:

“Microsoft Active Directory Integration” on page 163

Active Directory Integration Procedure

Before performing the procedure below, read “Set Up Security” on page 28 and “Connect to Microsoft Active Directory” on page 32. You should also have a good idea of how many enterprise users you expect the system to retrieve.

To integrate with Active Directory

Note

Unless the Allow unencrypted connections to the Active Directory security option is enabled (see “Security Settings” on page 48), the Polycom DMA system offers the same SSL server certificate that it offers to browsers connecting to the system management interface. The Microsoft Active Directory server must be configured to trust the certificate authority.

1In Windows Server, add the service account (read-only user account) that the Polycom DMA system will use to read the Active Directory. Configure this account as follows:

—User can’t change password.

—Password never expires.

—User can only access services on the domain controllers and cannot log in anywhere.

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