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Connect to an Active Directory forest

For this procedure, in Management Agent Designer, on the Connect to an Active Directory Forest page, you connect to an Active Directory forest on a local or remote server. You must provide a server name, a user name and password with administrator rights, and a logon domain. Each time the management agent is run, it uses this information to log on to Active Directory to read or write to the directory that you specify. You can synchronize one Active Directory forest per management agent. To complete this procedure, you must be logged on as a member of the MIISAdmins security group.

This procedure applies to management agents for the following Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 editions:

Enterprise Edition	Identity Integration Feature Pack for Active Directory
Active Directory, Active Directory global address list (GAL)	Active Directory, Active Directory global address list (GAL)

To connect to an Active Directory forest

In Management Agent Designer, on the Connect to an Active Directory forest page, in Forest name, type the complete name of the forest, and then, type a user account, password and logon domain.

Notes

In Forest name, you must type the complete fully qualified forest name. For example, the complete fully qualified forest name for the Microsoft West coast sales forest is sales.westcoast.microsoft.com.
You are not required to install Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 on the server running Active Directory. You can install Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 and Active Directory on different servers.