Defining The Active Directory Requirements; Nortel Callpilot; Administrator Guide; Nn44200-601 01.11 Standard - Nortel CallPilot Administrator's Manual

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Directory Synchronization can synchronize with an Active Directory running
on Windows 2000 Server (Standard and Advanced Editions) or Windows
Server 2003, Standard and Enterprise Editions.
Data is always driven from the Active Directory to CallPilot. The Active
Directory is also referred to as the "external directory" in this document.
Defining the Active Directory requirements
Before you configure Directory Synchronization, you must ask the Active
Directory Administrator for an administrator account which includes user
name and password. The AD administrator must delegate control to this
user account for the portion of the directory you are synchronizing, with
the following minimum permissions:
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You require the following information about the Active Directory:
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CallPilot server in one synchronization session, saving the administrator
from spending time manually entering the information.
A large corporation has an AD server containing thousands of users. As
well, they have CallPilot servers located in various places throughout
the corporation. With Directory Synchronization, a single administrator
can add, update, and remove CallPilot users in multiple locations from a
central AD.
Read permissions to object class "users" (Windows 2000)
Read permissions to object class "users" and "inetOrgPerson" (Windows
2003)
Write permissions to the LDAP attribute "otherMailbox", which has the
display name "E-mail Address (Others)"
The FQDN. This is the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the Active
Directory server. The FQDN is usually the computer name plus the
Domain Name System (DNS) suffix separated by dots. The easiest way
to find this information is to ping the computer name. The figure shows
the FQDN being returned as willim-r220110.ca.nortel.com.

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