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Before we configure any of these Notifications,
I want to first configure some Contacts, and, and more
or less just show you how you would identify the Contacts, the people
who are going to receive the Notifications. Now,
a Notification has certain Subscribers. Their
Subscribers are called Contacts, and the Contacts
can have one or more of what we call
delivery endpoints. Now the typical delivery endpoint is simply
an e-mail address. And, if I do
a search for my existing Contacts --
let's go ahead and search for all the existing
Contacts. You will notice
that --
now, all of them do have delivery
endpoints associated with them.
Well, I should not say all of them. Some of them do.
Now, some of the ones that we are finding right here, our Contacts, some of these Contacts
are Contacts that we have not built
specifically for Notifications.
Instead we are tying the Notification
Contact Search into Active Directory.
So, you will notice that the, the user,
Bob Smith, who is an Active Directory user, he has
an e-mail. This e-mail right here is his,
his, one of his delivery endpoints.
And you will notice that I can add new delivery endpoints
to this user. Now, what would a new delivery endpoint
be? Well, it could be a second e-mail address
or something else that, that routes information,
you know, for Bob Smith.
So, the first point I want to make is that, you know, typically
if you are using Active Directory, you are going to want to make sure
that Active Directory is something that Notifications knows
about so that you can go out and use Active Directory
as a search mechanism. Now, we will talk
little, a little later on, but I can also create new Contacts
that are not in Active Directory. So,
we are, we are just getting kind of, you know, we are getting extra
boost here from Active Directory so that we do not have to create things
that already exist in another, you know, in another
capacity, these Active Directory users.
In order to make this work, this Active Directory connection work,
you have to, first, go
down into this Navigation Pane here, or as we call it,
the, the Navigator Panel, here. This Navigator Panel --
make sure you have selected Contacts
and up here under Tools, choose Active
Directory Properties. Now this is where
we would specify, first of all,
what the Active Directory Domain
is, the actual domain controller that we are using
to implement Active Directory in this environment.
If you leave nothing there, just leave
that blank, then we will just simply go out and
use the typical AD Lookup.
And, then, in that way, we would use whatever we would normally
find. That's something -- I believe it's
DHCP is normally what implements that
lookup, but if you leave this blank, then we will simply go out
and find whatever Active Directory Server's out there.
If you do want to specify one explicitly,
though, you would put this in here. Now,
also, as you can see, we have different ways of
connecting to that Active Directory machine.
In this case, I am just going to use the
account that's associated with this AF Server.
You can also specify a Domain Account if you prefer.
So, if you have done
this properly, and your, you know, your, your network settings
are correct, then when it's time to go ahead
and subscribe -- like for example here, I am in the Subscriptions
Tab of a Notification --
when it's time to subscribe, we can do a search for
a Contact, and, and we will simply search through all
of your existing Active Directory Users. So,
when I choose New Search here --
let me search for All Users.
Yeah, here's, here's
the results. It's the same thing we saw before.
But now I can, for example, choose
one of these, and here's his delivery endpoint, this
e-mail delivery endpoint. I can use this to
subscribe along with these other subscribers here.
Actually, it looks like he's already subscribed. Let me find
another one. If I just drag this over, and that,
that basically subscribes me, or adds him
as a New Subscriber to that.
Now, we are going to go over all this in more, a lot more detail, when
we actually look at Notifications. So do not worry. The point I am trying
to make here, though, is that integration to Active Directory is
something you are going to want, and, in order to
configure that, again, you have to go into Contacts and
within Contact,
go into this Tools, Active Directory
Properties.
Now, if you want some more information about this, there is a nice
section you will find in your AF Manual on configuring
Active Directory. So, you know, that's
the, that's the AF Users Guide. You will find more
about the different fields that are configured when you are setting
up that Active Directory connection.
Now, I mentioned earlier that you could add new
endpoints to any of these Contacts, so
if I go back -- let me just demonstrate what I am talking about
here. Yeah, here's our Active Directory
Contacts or, in other words, here are the Active Directory Users
that we were able to find using our Contact Search.
And the one delivery endpoint that we
see so far is this e-mail. But, right now, that's the
only, that's the only delivery endpoint that we see
here, and we do not , we do not see anymore for this JD Hogg.
Well, if I go into my Contacts Section, you can actually
add new, new delivery endpoints.
So, if I were to go out -- you know, do this New
Search,
and find him within the List of Contacts --
... as you can see, here's his one delivery endpoint.
And we will go over what it means to have
a delivery endpoint, you know, what some of these fields are, a little later on.
But, I can just do a new delivery endpoint
at this point and then I would have, for example,
a, an e-mail address that's not part
of Active Directory. So that's something that we can do to these
Contacts once we have found them in Active Directory.