Configuring ActivID CMS for Use with Microsoft Active Directory

This section describes how to configure the ActivID CMS in a Microsoft environment using Microsoft Active Directory. It covers the prerequisites to configuration and provides step-by-step procedures for configuring Active Directory and ActivID CMS to work with the Microsoft CA The Certificate Authority (CA) issues and manages security credentials and public keys for message encryption in a networks environment.. This section describes how to:

• Configure ActivID CMS server user account access rights,

• Configure secure communications between ActivID CMS and Active Directory,

• Set user passwords.

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