When configuring import settings for user profiles on your SharePoint site, you can also choose to import User-Profile information from all servers that are running Microsoft active-Directory for your domain when doing SharePoint active directory integration. Servers that are running domains of SharePoint sites can be easily managed with active directory connections. If you want to perform some active directory integrations on your SharePoint site, you must configure the “Profile import page” by selecting the “custom source” options in the “source” section of your SharePoint.
The SharePoint Active Directory Integration Guide for Beginners
How to Add and Edit Active Directory Server
- If you want to import user profiles information from a set of customized servers that are running Microsoft active-directory, add the servers to a group of servers that are available for importing user profile information. After you are done with your SharePoint active-directory integration on the servers, you can add other servers later, edit all settings for the existing servers and delete servers used when importing user-profile information.
Instructions on how to Add Active Directory Server
- On the “Manage-Connection” page click on “New-Connection”
- In the “connection-Settings” section of the Add-Connection page, type the domain name in the “Domain-Name” box given.
- By default a domain-controller is usually detected for you. TO choose a controller, Click on “Select Domain-Controller” and then type the domain controller-name in the “Domain controller-name” box for the active directory-server that you would like to add.
- To access the server by using a Secure-socket layer {ssl} , Select “Use_SSL- secured connection” in the check box.
- If you would like to limit the amount of time spent when attempting to access servers that are not responding, Type a value in “Time-Out” box.
- If you are the site admin and you would like to restrict or expand the number of user profiles that you are importing in your site, type a new clause in “User-Filter” box or simply delete the existing clauses.
- Select “sub-tree” or “one_level” when changing the depth to use for searching users profiles.
- If you want to limit the amount of data of each user profile, type a value in the “Page-size” box.
- If you would also like to limit the amount spent when trying to access a server that ~is not responding, type a value in the “Page-time-out” box.
How to Edit Active Directory Server
- To edit active directory server go to the “manage Connection-page” and click on the server that you would like to edit.
- In the “Connection-Settings” section of the add “connection-page” , type a new name in the “Domain Controller-Name” box if you select the “Select a Domain-Controller” option.
- If you want to change “secure Socket-Layer {SSL} secure connection, clear or select the “Use SS-Connection in the check box provided.
- Type any value you would like in the “Time-out” box to change time spent when waiting for a response from the main Domain Controller.
- To limit the amount of time spent when attempting to access a server that is not responding, type a new value in the “page Time-Out” box.
- If you would like to limit the amount of data exported by each user, type a new value in the “Page-size” box.
- To add another node in the “Search-base”, type a distinguished name for the new node in the “Search-base” box.
If you are new to SharePoint Active Directory, use this guides above to help you learn SharePoint active directory integration the easy way.
