Configure Active Directory Username Lookup

Where a server is joined to an Active Directory domain, and when Zee Drive starts-up on the server, Zee Drive will automatically look-up the user's Zee Drive username from Active Directory.

By default, Zee Drive will look up the username from the user principal name Active Directory property. Zee Drive will then validate the username is set-up on the Zee Drive subscription.

Typically, in most environments, the Active Directory user principal name attribute should match the user's Microsoft 365 username, and hence their Zee Drive username.

But, you may have an environment where this is not the case. The Active Directory user principal name may be set to a different domain to the Microsoft 365 domain, and you do not want to change this on your Active Directory.

This will cause an error for Zee Drive when it starts up as it will fail to verify the user is set up on the subscription as the Active Directory user principal name does not match their Zee Drive username.

Through the Zee Drive Administration Console, you can configure Zee Drive to use an alternative Active Directory attribute from which to look up their username. For example, you can configure Zee Drive to look up the username from the mail attribute instead.

Here's how to change the lookup attribute:

1

From the Administration Console, click the action button then click the "Manage hot desk computers and desktop servers" option

2

Click the "Choose an action..." button then click the option "Configure the AD attribute for username lookup"

3

Zee Drive will show the current lookup attribute name. If you haven't yet changed it, it will be set to the default, userprincipalname. Enter the new lookup attribute and then click the Update button

4

In this example, I changed the lookup attribute to mail. On clicking the Update button, the busy indicator will show whilst Zee Drive updates the attribute

5

The green tick mark will show after Zee Drive has successfully updated the lookup attribute. When users next sign in to the server, Zee Drive will use the new attribute name to lookup their username from Active Directory