User Groups
User accounts within each domain can be sorted into groups. The main reasons for creating user groups are as follows:
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Creating a User Group
Create a new group by clicking on the Add button. A guide for user group creation will be opened.
Step 1 Name and description of the group:
Figure 22. Creating a group basic data- Name
- Unique name of the group.
- Description
- Description of the group; may be left blank.
Note:Pressing the Finish button the wizard can be finished in any step. The group will be created and the skipped fields will be filled with default values.
Step 2 email accounts
Figure 23. Creating a group e-mail addressThis step defines all desired email accounts (aliases) of the group. Unlike users, groups do not have an implied alias. In other words, if a group is created without any defined aliases, KMS will not deliver any email to that group since there are no email addresses associated with the group.
Group addresses can be defined either in group definitions or in the Domain Settings Aliases section. We recommend defining aliases from the group definitions as it is better and easier to follow.
Note:If users and groups are maintained through Active Directory (for details, see chapter Domains), their aliases can be defined using the Active Directory Users and Computers panel unless these are global aliases (Domain Settings Aliases).
Step 3 Members of the group
Figure 24. Creating a group users additionUsing the Add and Remove buttons you can add or remove users to/from the group. If there are no user accounts created, a group may remain empty and users will be assigned to it when their user accounts are defined (see chapter User Accounts).
Step 4 Access rights for the group
Figure 25. Creating a group user rightsThe group must be assigned one of the following three levels of access rights:
- No access to administration
- Users in this group have no access to Kerio MailServer administration.
- Read only access
- Users in this group can log in to Kerio MailServer administration but they can only view the logs and settings. They cannot alter any settings.
- Read/Write access
- Users in this group have full access rights.
Group access rights are combined with user access rights. This implies that resulting user rights correspond either with their own rights or with rights of the appropriate group according to which ones have higher priority.
Step 5 advanced settings:
Check this option to add a user to public contacts folder.
Figure 26. Creating a group publish information to the public contacts folder
