New Windows-Linked User Group
How do I open New
Windows
-Linked User Group?
- StartFactoryTalk Administration ConsoleorFactoryTalk View Studioand then log on to theFactoryTalkNetwork Directory orFactoryTalkLocal Directory where you want to add aWindows-linked user group account.
- In theExplorerwindow, expand theFactoryTalkNetwork or Local Directory tree, and then expand theSystemfolder and theUsers and Groupsfolder.
- Right-click theUser Groupsfolder, point toNew, and then click.Windows-linked User Group
To move
Windows
accounts from one domain to another, create Windows
-linked user group accounts instead of individual Windows
-linked user accounts. Windows
-linked user group accounts, and the user accounts they contain, can move from one domain to another while keeping security permissions for the group accounts intact. Linking user groups from a
Windows
domain or workgroup to the FactoryTalk
system allows the Windows
user accounts in the group to access the FactoryTalk
system using their existing Windows
credentials. To modify the properties of a Windows
-linked user group, (for example the group's name, or which user accounts are members of the group), use Windows
.Use to add a group account in the
Windows
-Linked User GroupFactoryTalk Directory
that is linked to a user group account in Windows
.When adding a
Windows
-linked user group account, all user accounts in the Windows
user group can access the FactoryTalk
system. To prevent some users in a Windows
-linked group from accessing the FactoryTalk
system, create Windows
-linked accounts for those users, and then set permissions to deny access to those user accounts.Windows-linked user groups are influenced by Windows security policy settings. For more
information, see The influence of Windows User Rights Assignment settings on a FactoryTalk system.
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