Setup an AD (Active Directory) Server

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This is an example of setting up an AD server.

Note: A functional IT Advisor web client is required.

To illustrate how an authentication server might look, Apache Directory Studio is used, to connect and show an authentication server.

The following two illustrations show what the Authentication server settings look like (image 1) when you are connecting to an AD Server, without groups (image 2).

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(Image 2)

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When configuring group info, you have two options based on your type of authentication server:

Your authentication server may support none (skip this step), one or both options.

1. Parse user attribute for list of groups.
   1.  Documentation: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms677099.aspx
      
2. search for groups containing users.
   1. Documentation: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms677097.aspx
      

Configuration of option 1 - parse user attribute for list of groups:

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Configuration of option 2 - search for groups containing users:

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Now that your server is set up, check whether there are any groups available in the User Groups Browser to confirm your connection.