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Identity Manager 8.1.4 - Administration Guide for Connecting to Active Directory

Managing Active Directory environments Setting up Active Directory synchronization Basic data for managing an Active Directory environment
Account definitions for Active Directory user accounts Password policies for Active Directory user accounts Initial password for new Active Directory user accounts Email notifications about login data User account names Target system managers Editing a server
Active Directory domains Active Directory user accounts
Linking user accounts to employees Supported user account types Entering master data for Active Directory user accounts Additional tasks for managing Active Directory user accounts Automatic assignment of employees to Active Directory user accounts Updating employees when Active Directory user account are modified Automatic creation of departments and locations based on user account information Disabling Active Directory user accounts Deleting and restoring Active Directory user accounts
Active Directory contacts Active Directory groups
Entering master data for Active Directory groups Validity of group memberships Assigning Active Directory groups to Active Directory user accounts, Active Directory contacts, and Active Directory computers Additional tasks for managing Active Directory groups Deleting Active Directory groups Default solutions for requesting Active Directory groups and group memberships
Active Directory security IDs Active Directory container structures Active Directory computers Active Directory printers Active Directory locations Reports about Active Directory objects Configuration parameters for managing an Active Directory environment Default project template for Active Directory

Active Directory account policies for Active Directory domains

Set up global account policies for a domain. This information is declared in the domain as default settings. For domains from the functional levels Windows Server 2008 R2 and above, it is possible to define multiple account policies. This allows individual users and groups to be subjected to stricter account policies as intended for global groups. Refer to your Active Directory documentation for more information about the concept of fine-grained password policies under Windows Server.

You can also define password policies in One Identity Manager that you can apply to the user account passwords.

NOTE: One Identity Manager password policies, global account policy settings for the Active Directory domain, and Active Directory account policies are all taken into account when verifying user passwords.
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Entering Active Directory account policies

Account policies are loaded into the One Identity Manager database during synchronization. You have the option to edit existing account policies and add new ones.

To enter master data for an account policy

  1. Select the Active Directory | Account policies category.
  2. Select the account policy in the result list and run the Change master data task.

    - OR -

    Click New in the result list toolbar.

  3. Edit the account policy's master data.
  4. Save the changes.
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General master data for an Active Directory account policy

Enter the following data on the General tab.

Table 29: General master data for an account policy
Property Description

Name

Account policy name

Domain

Active Directory domain for which the account policy is available.

Distinguished name

Distinguished name of the account policy. The distinguished name is formed based on rules and is made up of the name of the account policy, the system container for password policies Password Settings Container, and the domain.

Display name

Display name to display in the One Identity Manager tools.

Simple display

Display name for systems that cannot interpret all the characters of normal display names.

Description

Text field for additional explanation.

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How to define a policy

Enter the following master data on the Policies tab.

Table 30: Master data for a policy definition
Property Description

Block duration [min]

Block duration in minutes. Enter the time period the account should be locked for before it is automatically reset.

Reset account [min]

Duration in minutes of account reset. Enter the time period that can elapse between two invalid attempts to enter a password before a user account is locked.

Max. errors

Maximum number of errors. Set the number of invalid passwords. If the user has reached this number the user account is blocked.

Max. password age

Maximum age of the password. Enter the length of time a password can be used before it expires.

Minimum password lifetime

Minimum age of the password. Enter the length of time a password has to be used before the user is allowed to change it.

Minimum password length

Minimum length of the password. Use this option to specify that a password has to be complex.

Password history

Enter the number of passwords to be saved. For example, if you enter the value 5, the last 5 passwords for the user are saved.

Ranking

Ranking for password settings. If several account polices are assigned to a user account or a group, the account policy is used that has the lowest value.

Complex passwords

Specifies how complicated the password should be. Complex passwords must fulfill certain minimum prerequisites. For more information, see the documentation for implementing Windows Server.

Save passwords with reversible encryption

Details for encrypting passwords. By default, passwords that are saved in Active Directory are encrypted. When you use this option, passwords are saved in plain text and can be restored again.

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