Map Source System Users and Groups to Active Directory

Use the Active Directory page to map users and groups from the source system to Active Directory.

Target Directory

1. From the top navigation menu select Tools > Configuration.

2. Select the Target Directory tab.

Configuration

Configure the Active Directory using the fields on the page.

1. Active Directory Server
   1. Enter the name of an existing Connection to enable the Connections to share the input Connection’s mapping.
   2. If an existing Connection is entered into this field:
      • The connection's mapped users and groups are used
      • The rest of the settings on this page are replicated from your current Connection
2. Authentication mode
   1. Use Service Account
3. Root Domain
   1. Enter the Domain name that is used to map users from your source system into Active Directory.
      1. Your entry must be the fully qualified domain name format.
      2. For example: subdomain.mydomain.local.
4. Content Owner
   1. This is the domain user such as MyDomain\contentowner.
   2. This user will have access to all search results.
   3. This must be a domain user with full read access to the information in SharePoint that is crawled by this content source
   4. Typically, this is the SP Search Service account, or similar administrative account.
      
5. Click Save.