ADMINISTRATION TOOLS
Setting up Windows NT User Manager
When you create a new user or group account in Windows NT User Manager for Domains, you can simultaneously register the user or group in Notes. For users, this includes creating a Person document, Notes ID, password, and mail file for the user. For groups, this includes creating a Group document and, optionally, registering individual group members as Notes users. You can also register existing Windows NT users or groups in Notes. In addition, you can delete Notes users or groups when you remove their user/group accounts. Further, you can synchronize existing Windows NT users with Notes users for future synchronization operations such as deleting users.

If you are running a Domino server on Windows NT, you can synchronize user and group information in Domino and Windows NT. Then, you can perform many administrative tasks in either Domino or Windows NT User Manager for Domains, and the effects occur in both products.

When you use Domino to register or delete a Notes user or delete a Notes group, you can automatically update User Manager for Domains (USRMGR.EXE). Conversely, special menu options and dialog boxes added to Windows NT allow you to specify that additions and deletions (and name changes for users) made to User Manager user or group accounts are reflected in the Domino Directory. You can also add existing Windows NT user or group accounts to the Domino Directory.

For example, if you run Notes on Windows NT, you can open User Manager for Domains and specify that all changes to user accounts during the session are also recorded in the Domino Directory on a selected Domino server. You then display the list of existing user or group accounts and select ones to be added to the Domino Directory. Then you add, delete, or modify other user accounts while working in Windows NT. All these changes are automatically made to the Domino Directory. Plus, a mail file, Notes ID, and common password (shared by the user's Notes ID, Notes Internet password, and Windows NT account) can be created for each new user.

These directory synchronization features let you keep both the Domino Directory and User Manager current, without having to update both when either changes. Also, you can manage user and group information in the Domino Directory and User manager from either Notes or Windows NT.

To set up Windows NT User Manager, you must complete these procedures:

1. Enable Notes synchronization features.

2. Synchronize Windows NT and Notes users.