Use the General tab of the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Active Directory System Discovery Properties dialog box to enable Active Directory System Discovery and specify which Active Directory containers to search during that discovery.
The General tab contains the following elements:
- Enable Active Directory System Discovery
- Enables the Active Directory System Discovery method for this site.
- Active Directory containers
- Specifies the containers that are processed by this discovery
method, and the scope of that discovery.The following options are
available for managing the Active Directory containers associated
with this method:
- New icon: Opens the New Active Directory
Container dialog box to add an Active Directory container to
the discovery polling list.
- Property icon: Opens the New Active
Directory Container dialog box to view or modify an Active
Directory container in the discovery polling list.
- Delete icon: Removes the selected container
from the discovery polling list.
- Distinguished Name: Specifies the LDAP
distinguished name of the Active Directory container.
- Recursive: Specifies whether or not
the discovery method searches child containers of this specific
Active Directory container.
- Group: Specifies whether or not the
discovery method includes or excludes objects within groups within
its search of this specific Active Directory container.
- New icon: Opens the New Active Directory
Container dialog box to add an Active Directory container to
the discovery polling list.
- OK
- Saves any changes and exits the dialog box.
- Cancel
- Exits the dialog box without saving any changes.
- Apply
- Saves any changes and remains in the dialog box.
- Help
- Opens the help topic for this tab of the dialog box.