LDAP Screen Descriptions

The LDAP feature uses the following screens:

The Active Directory Setup Screen

The View Users Screen

This section explains how to use each screen.

The Active Directory Setup Screen

The Active Directory Setup screen (illustrated below) lets you enable and disable the Active Directory or LDAP features, as well as determine other aspects of AD management, such as whether users and groups are automatically updated. To access the screen, click Settings > Configuration -> Active Directory -> Setup from the left panel of the Workarea.

For a description of the fields, see the Active Directory section The Active Directory Setup Screen.

The View Users Screen

The View Users screen (illustrated below) lists all users in the Ektron CMS400.NET database. To access the screen, click Users from the left panel of the Workarea. To view more information for a user, click that user to move to the View User Information screen.

The View Users screen provides a toolbar button () that lets you add LDAP users manually to Ektron CMS400.NET. This is useful if you want to add a single user from an different Organizational Unit from your others users, and you do not want to add other users from that Organization.

The View User Information Screen

The View User Information Screen displays all information for the user, such as

username

Path

first and last name

language

email address and whether the user receives email notifications

whether the account is locked

which Forum Editor the user is using

user groups

user properties (if any)

etc.

The screen also displays the following buttons.

Button

Description

Edit information on screen

Delete user

See Also: Deleting Users

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