Active Directory

Overview

Active Directory (AD) is a Windows service primarily used for user accounts, account/password policies, and their membership in user groups. Group membership is a conventional way to manage user permissions.

SmartPTT supports authorization for Active Directory users using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

Benefits

AD integration provides the following benefits to SmartPTT users:

• Organizations manage users and their permissions in the centralized way.
• IT personnel grants/revokes user access in the conventional way, enforce all the necessary security policies.
• SmartPTT distributors reduce their time & cost expenses on security provision.

For integration with Active Directory, SmartPTT requires up to four user groups that correspond to up to four basic roles in the product.

Limitations

Available in the dedicated article

Changelog

Release 9.14

Introduced. Only users and user groups are supported.

See Also

Features:

• Local Users and Groups
• Role-Based Access
• Password Policies
• Server Authentication

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Procedures and Processes:

• Creating Local Users
• Creating Local User Groups
• Installing SmartPTT
• Linking User Groups to Profiles