Overview

You can connect your Kerio Connect to Microsoft Active Directory or Apple Open Directory.

To migrate the users' accounts from a local database to a directory service, please follow the steps below.

Step By Step Guide

1. Remove the local accounts from Kerio Connect.
2. Connect your domain to a directory service.
3. Create new accounts in the directory service with identical usernames as before.

Migrating users

1. In the administration interface, go to Accounts > Users.
2. Remove all local users you want to migrate to a directory service.
   • In the Remove User dialog box, select Do not delete user's message folder and deselect the option Also delete aliases of this user.
3. Connect your domain to a directory service.
4. In the directory server, create users with the same usernames as you had before.
5. In Kerio Connect, activate the users from the directory service.

NOTE: All information about directory service can be found in the Debug and Warning logs.

Confirmation

Kerio Connect now matches the users with the mailboxes and users can see all their previous messages.