Microsoft Active Directory Connector
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Microsoft Active Directory Connector Guide |
Deployment overview
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Create a user identity for your Active Directory source
The Active Directory content is accessible in read-only to any user from the domain or from a trusted domain. The Active Directory connector can therefore use any Active Directory user to crawl and index the Active Directory content. You must configure a CES user identity that contains information about the user you choose to use (see Adding a User Identity). You will later assign this user identity to your Active Directory source and security provider.
Note: A best practice is to create an Active Directory user dedicated to the CES connector and for which the password never changes.
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(Optional) Modify the default Active Directory security provider or create a new one
Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) comes with a default Active Directory security provider. You can modify this security provider or create new ones to connect to a specific Active Directory domain (see Configuring an Active Directory Security Provider).
Example: In your organization, there are several Microsoft Windows domains. You want to index the Active Directory content of Domain A while CES is running in DomainC. You can create a Domain A security provider and assign it to a Domain A Active Directory source to index only the Active Directory content of this domain.
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Configure and index a Microsoft Active Directory source (see Configuring and Indexing an Active Directory Source).