Polycom 3725-77601-001H manual Create the Polycom CMA System Service Account

Polycom CMA System Operations Guide

Enabling the Integrate with Enterprise Directory Server option also allows endpoint users to select conference participants and rooms from the enterprise directory. Because endpoint connections to LDAP use the endpoint user’s credentials, the Active Directory access control lists identify which endpoint users and rooms each user can see.

Note

The CMA system supports only the Microsoft Active Directory for its enterprise directory.

In addition, administrative users can:

•View some enterprise user and group information

•Import enterprise groups into the CMA system

•Assign roles to users in different enterprise groups

•Identify enterprise resources, such as rooms, so that they can be treated as resources in the CMA system

Note

To allow endpoint users to use NTLM Single Sign On technology to connect to the CMA system and access services such as automatic provisioning, automatic software update, and presence, see “Allow Delegated Authentication to Enterprise Directory Server” on page 367.

For more information about Active Directory and LDAP, see MS Strategy for

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

Create the Polycom CMA System Service Account

To create the CMA system service account

1On the Active Directory server, open the Active Directory Users and Computers module (Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers).

2Click the node for your domain and then right-click the OU folder in which you want to add a user account and select New > User.

3At a minimum, in the First name, Full name, and User logon name fields, type cmaservice or an appropriate name for your environment and click Next.

4In the Password and Confirm Password fields, type a password for the service account to use during initial integration. This is the password you must enter on the CMA system Enterprise Server page.

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