Meridian User Administration

Meridian user administration consists of three separate but interrelated disciplines:

• Windows user account administration as described in the topics in Network Administration.

• Meridian user account administration described in the following topics.

• Meridian vault security administration as described in Secure Parts Of the Vault Configuration and Security Roles.

Meridian user accounts and user groups are used to assign security roles to specific folders in vaults and for use with workflow definitions and the project definitions of the Advanced Project Workflow module. These users and groups should not be confused with Windows users and groups or Active Directory users and groups. Although Meridian users and groups can be synchronized with their Active Directory counterparts, they are not the same things, but can work together to authorize content management activities. The Windows user accounts and groups are used solely for user authentication and security permissions outside of the Meridian vaults. For the remainder of this topic, the terms user and group refer to Meridian users and groups unless otherwise specified.

Meridian users and groups may be defined in the Meridian Enterprise Administrator tool. If Meridian Enterprise Server is also deployed, users and groups may be defined in the Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console instead. They are then available in Meridian Enterprise if the Use Enterprise Server for user management option is enabled as described in Configure the Connection To Meridian Enterprise Server. Once defined, they may be used in any of the vaults managed by the same server. They can be applied to folders and workflow definitions inside the Meridian Enterprise Configurator tool as described in Workflow Definitions and in Assign Security Roles To a Folder.