Active Administrator 8.7 - User Guide

Adding a domain

Adding a domain

To add a domain

1	Select Configuration | Recovery Settings.

2	Click Add Domain.

3	In the Domain box, type a domain name, or browse to locate a domain.

4	Specify the domain controller to perform the backup.

 

Table 114. Options for domain controller backup

Option	Description
Use automatically selected domain controller	By default, Active Administrator® uses a domain controller automatically selected by Active Directory®.
Use the domain controller specified here	Select to use a different domain controller, and then browse to locate a domain controller.

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Click OK.

Enabling or disabling password recovery

Enabling or disabling password recovery

Active Administrator can restore passwords when you restore accounts that were deleted.

IMPORTANT: If you choose to disable password recovery, passwords are not backed up. If you restore a backup that does not contain passwords, you must dis-join and then rejoin computer accounts. NOTE: Enabling password recovery changes the searchFlags attribute of the Unicode-PWD object in the Active Directory® schema, but does not alter the schema structure.

To enable or disable password recovery

1	Select Configuration | Recovery Settings.

The Password Recovery column indicates if password recovery is enabled or disabled.

2	Select the domain, and click Password Recovery.

3	Click Yes in response to the displayed message.

Setting GPO history options

Setting GPO history options

The Group Policy History service should be installed on only one computer. The service needs to be configured to run as a domain account that has enough privileges to read all of the Group Policy object (GPO) settings on the domain, as well as to write permissions to the Group Policy History Path.

To set GPO history options

1	Select Configuration | GPO History Settings.

2	Select how often you want the Group Policy History service to poll the domain controllers for Group Policy object (GPO) changes at a specified polling interval.

NOTE: The GPO service polls the domain controllers for GPO changes at a specified polling interval. The polling interval is set to 60 seconds by default. We recommend a polling interval of 60 seconds as this gives the administrators enough time to make a few changes to the GPO without creating new versions for every change.

3	The GPO History Service checks for GPO Policy changes on the listed domains.

▪	To add a domain to the list, click Add Domain, and select a domain.

▪	To remove a selected domain from the list, click Remove.

4	Click Save.

Setting certificate configuration

Setting certificate configuration

The Certificates feature monitors the state of certificates on managed computers and the security on the repository. You can enable or disable certificate monitoring, and send a notification email when the state of a certificate changes.

Topics 

•	Setting certificate notifications

•	Setting up certificate email notifications

•	Configuring certification authority

•	Setting security on the repository