Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E220s (English) Access Connections Profile Deployment gui - Page 31
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Chapter 5. Working with Active Directory and ADM files Active Directory provides a mechanism that gives administrators the ability to manage computers, groups, end users, domains, security policies, and any type of user-defined objects. The mechanisms used by Active Directory to accomplish this are known as Group Policy and Administrative Template files (ADM). With Group Policy and ADM files, administrators define settings that can be applied to computers or users in the domain. For more information about Active Directory or Group Policy, see the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com Adding Administrative Templates Designed to save your time and effort, Lenovo provides an Administrative Template file, "tvtacad.adm", which can be used with Group Policy to set the configuration policies for Access Connections. The tvtacad.adm file can be downloaded from Lenovo Web site. Complete the following steps for adding the Access Connections Administrative Template (ADM file) to the Group Policy editor: 1. On the machine running the Active Directory server, click Start Menu > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management. The Group Management console is opened. 2. Right click on Default Domain Policy node, and select Edit. The Group Policy Object Editor is displayed. 3. Under Computer Configuration, right click on Administrative Templates. 4. Click Add , and then select the tvtacad.adm file. 5. Click Close on the Add/Remove Templates dialog box. 6. Under the Computer Configuration, click the Administrative Templates. A new tab named ThinkVantage is present. Under the ThinkVantage tab there will be a Access Connections tab. All the available settings can be configured now for this machine. Installing the client configuration plugin for Access Connections Designed to save you time and effort, Lenovo has provided supplemental plug-in files to set client configuration policies for Access Connections. The following supplemental file is compressed in the acplgin45.exe: v tvtacad.adm - This administrative template is used with Group Policy to set the configuration policies for Access Connections. This file supports Access Connections 4.2 and above. © Lenovo 2008. Portions © IBM Corp. 2005. 23