Polycom 7000 manual Field Description Active Directory Connection, Conference Settings

Integrations with Other Systems

Field	Description
Active Directory Connection
Auto-discover from FQDN	If this option is selected, the system uses serverless 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.
	If this option is checked, the system attempts to connect to the Active
	Directory as follows:
	1	It looks up the LDAP servers for the DNS domain (using DNS SRV:
		_ldap._tcp.<domain-name>).
	2 It LDAP-pings every returned LDAP server until one responds with the
		system’s client site name.
	3	It looks up the global catalog servers for the site (using DNS SRV:
		_gc._tcp.<site-name>.
		_sites.<domain-name>).
	4 It tries to connect to the global catalog servers.
	5 If it can’t connect, it tries other global catalog servers from the forest.
	6	If it still can’t connect, it uses the DNS domain name (using DNS A:
		<domain-name>) and connects to it.
	Step 6 is the system behavior if this option isn’t checked.
	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 RealPresence 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.
Domain	The Active Directory domain in which the RealPresence DMA system should
	create and publish Active Directory contacts.
	If the system is upgraded from a version prior to 6.2 to version 6.2 or later, the
	initial value of this field is the Destination network of the SIP Peer configured
	in Lync pool to create/publish to on the Admin > Conference Manager >
	Conference Settings page.

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