About Active Directory easy configuration
Easy configuration automatic domain authentication configuration simplifies the server-side SteelHead configuration for enabling acceleration in a secure environment. Using this widget automates the majority of the required configuration tasks, avoiding the need to perform step-by-step operations in different configuration tools and using the command line on Windows Active Directory platforms.
After successfully running the easy configuration module, you can enable the secure traffic optimization feature. Easy configuration configures the appliance's domain authentication in the simplest yet widest supported settings. It performs these tasks:
• Tests the DNS configuration.
• Joins the appliance to the specified domain.
• Enables selected settings, such as SMB signing.
• Configures a deployed replication user in Active Directory, with the necessary privileges.
If any of the steps fail during the configuration, the system automatically rolls back to the previous configuration.
You don’t necessarily need to employ user replication or delegation when you join SteelHead to the domain in Active Directory. When you integrate the server-side appliance in this way, it doesn’t provide any Windows domain controller functionality to any other machines in the domain and doesn’t advertise itself as a domain controller or register any SRV records (service records). In addition, the appliance doesn’t perform any replication nor hold any Active Directory objects. The appliance has just enough privileges so that it can communicate with the domain controller and then use transparent mode for NTLM authentication.