How to override Global Catalog server used in Global Administrative Unit

Summary: Administrative Units are sets of queries that can be used to represent administrative boundaries and simplify day-to-day tasks within the Web Portal. In Cayosoft Administrator, you can create your Administrative Units based on your organization structure to specify the granular access to specific scope for delegated administrators.

Typically, each group of delegated admins is supplied with a dedicated Administrative Unit, where they have required permissions. If you need to provide a search across all Administrative Units available for delegated administrators you can create and configure a Global Administrative Unit.

Global Administrative Unit uses the Global Catalog (GC) server to find the objects. Cayosoft Administrator automatically finds such a server when the Cayosoft Administrator Service starts. However, there may be situations when you do not want to rely on automatic searching and want Cayosoft to always use the specific GC server. This article will help you to configure this.

How to override the Global Catalog server

To always use the specific GC server you need:

1. Close the Cayosoft Administrator Console.

2. Stop the Cayosoft Administrator Service (Open Task Manager, click the Services tab, select in the list CayoAdminService, and click Stop in the pop-up menu)

3. Open the folder where Cayosoft Administrator is installed, by default it is C:\Program Files\Cayo Software\AdminAssistant\.

4. Backup the original .config file Cayo.PolicyManager.exe.config.

5. Open Cayo.PolicyManager.exe.config in notepad or any other text editor.

6. Find the line <add key="ActiveDirectoryOverrideGC" value="" /> and insert into value desired GC server and port (by default it is 3268), for example:

   <add key="ActiveDirectoryOverrideGC" value="myGCname.domain.com:3268" />

7. Save the file.

8. Start the Cayosoft Administrator Service (you can do it from Task Manager again).

NOTE: Since you have overridden the default settings, our service will not search for an available GC server automatically and will always try to use the one specified in the .config file. Be aware, that server should be always available, and if necessary you will need to change the server name manually and then restart the Cayosoft Administrator Service.