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See also:
Microsoft Active Directory® Integration on page 152
Active Directory Integration Procedure
Before performing the procedure below, read Set Up Security on page34 and Connect to Microsoft Active
Directory® on page 36. You should also have a good idea of how many enterprise users you expect the
system to retrieve.

To integrate with Active Directory

1In Windows Server, add the service account (read-only user account) that the Polycom
RealPresence 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.
If you are integrating the RealPresence DMA system with Lync 2013 and plan to use the automatic
conference contact creation feature, the service account you create here should have full
permissions to add, change, and delete entries in the OU where the conference contacts are stored,
along with full administrative permissions for Lync administration to manipulate these contacts.
Conference directory attribute The name of the Active Directory attribute that contains 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 used Desired length of conference passcodes. The Polycom RealPresence 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.
Note: Active Directory must trust the RealPresence DMA system certificate
Unless the Allow unencrypted connections to the Active Directory security option is enabled, the
RealPresence 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.
Field Description