For the IT administration, Active Directory offers the advantage of central user management for programs such as ibaPDA, ibaHD-Server, ibaCapture or ibaDaVIS in one domain. This simplifies the maintenance of user accounts and their authorizations within the programs.

Active Directory users, or domain users as they are called in the programs, are users or groups defined in an Active Directory.

The individual users inherit the permissions from the group to which they belong. Therefore, it is not necessary to create all users individually in the program's user management system. If the group is created as a domain user, any user belonging to this group can log in with their domain credentials and use the program with the permissions assigned to the group. This means that adjustments can be made very easily by the IT administration, e.g., in the case of staff changes or new employees.

Individual users can still be created locally in the program's user management system if required, e.g., to obtain rights that differ from those of the group.

The program-specific rights are granted or denied to the individual users via the programs' user management interfaces (ibaPDA or ibaHD-Server). This can be done by all users who have the User administration right.