Campus Active Directory - Getting Started

Overview

Campus Active Directory is the centralized Active Directory service for the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Campus Active Directory allows participating departments of UW-Madison to use NetID-based authentication while allowing for delegated administration of local resources. Departmental administrators will be able to assign group policies, manage security groups, and deploy software while taking advantage of the NetID authentication.

Please refer to the following documents to get started with using the Campus Active Directory:

Managing Active Directory Objects with ActiveRoles Server

SharedDrive (Linux) - Mounting a Windows File Share

Campus Active Directory - Naming Convention

Campus Active Directory - Acceptable Use of Accounts

Campus Active Directory - Joining OS X 10.7 or later to Campus Active Directory

Campus Active Directory - ARS - Getting Started with ActiveRoles Server

Campus Active Directory - Configure Microsoft Windows Cluster Computer Objects

Campus Active Directory - Requesting an Organizational Unit (OU)

Campus Active Directory - Changing your OU Administrator acount password

Campus Active Directory - Join Windows computer to Active Directory

Campus Active Directory - How to Identify Workstation Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

Campus Active Directory - ARS - Connecting to ActiveRoles Server