Active Directory and pointing to a specific AD using a specific user

Hi Alex,

I have not tried this myself but I think it should work. The way you define the windows user in r eB is by editing the Person and entering the domain\username in the User Account Information topic. This user name is something you type and can be any domain.

The service account is the account used by eB services to access resources on the server and the network.

thanks,

I assume it is the domain user that is running the eB services that is gaining read access to the AD. The domain user setup for eB has access to our network but does not have access to the AD that we need to use it is Louisville Metro's AD. Apparently in SharePoint you can configure one domain user to run the services and another to access or read from the AD. I am wondering if there is anyway to have a similar setup in eB? Thanks for your help.

Alex Talbott.

This could be accomplished by creating a sql job that runs the ebp_sync_active_directory stored procedure under the desired credential. Of course, the credential would need to be assigned the appropriate access to the community's database. Public + exec on the stored procedure should be sufficient if this is all you need to do. A side benefit of this is that it could be set to periodically sync, eliminating the need to do this from the SMC.

It is possible to assign different credentials to run the individual eB services in the SMC, however, the active directory sync runs in the work queue, which also does many other things, defeating your purpose.