Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

User Accounts and Groups
Search
The Search engine can be used to filter out user accounts meeting specified criteria.
The searching is interactive — each symbol typed or deleted defines the string which is
evaluated immediately and all accounts including the string in either Name, Full name
or Description are viewed. The icon next to the entry can be clicked to clear the filtering
string and display all user accounts in the selected domain (if the Search entry is blank,
the icon is hidden).
The searching is helpful especially when the domain includes too many accounts which
might make it difficult to look up particular items.
Hiding / showing disabled accounts
It is possible to disable accounts in Kerio Control. Check the Hide disabled user accounts
to show only active (enabled) accounts.
Account template
Parameters shared by the most accounts can be defined by a template. Templates simplify
administration of user accounts — shared parameters are set just once, when defining the
template. It is also possible to configure some accounts (such as administrator accounts)
separately, without using the template.
Templates apply to specific domains (or to the local user database). Each template
includes parameters of user rights, data transfer quota and rules for content rules (for
detailed description of all these parameters, refer to chapter 16.2).
Local user accounts
If the Local user database is selected in the Domain item, user accounts in Kerio Control are
listed (complete information on these accounts are stored in the Kerio Control configuration
database). The following options are available for accounts in the local database:
Add, Edit, Remove
Click Add, Edit or Remove to create, modify or delete local user accounts (for details, see
chapter 16.2). It is also possible to select more than one account by using the Ctrl and
Shift keys to perform mass changes of parameters for all selected accounts.
Importing accounts from a domain
Accounts can be imported to the local database from the Windows NT domain or from
Active Directory. Actually, this process includes automatic copying of domain accounts
(account authenticating at the particular domain) to newly created local accounts. For
detailed information about import of user accounts, refer to chapter 16.3.
Import of accounts is recommended in case of the Windows NT domain. If Active Directory
domain is used, it is recommended to use the transparent cooperation with Active
Directory (domain mapping — see chapter 16.4).
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