As a result of a January 2018 Windows 10 update, you will need to join your Windows 10 iSweep to your domain. This will be handled internally for Network Services Managed Clients, however, non-managed clients will need to have Network Services work with their IT staff/third party IT company to setup a new local account on the machine in order to join this unit to your domain and complete the additional steps.
Configuring Group Policy and Active Directory
Active Directory Configuration
- Open Active Directory and right-click the Domain Name at the top of the tree on the left side.
- Hover over “new” and select Organizational Unit
- Name the new OU “CUA – iSweep Management”
Group Policy Configuration
- Create a new Group Policy Object in Group Policy Management:
- Open “Group Policy Management
- Right-click “Group Policy Objects” and Click “New”
- Enter “CUA – iSweep Management” in the Name field and click OK.
- Right-click the GPO and select “Import Settings”
- Find and select the GPO extracted from “CUA_-_iSweep_Management.zip” file (see link below for this file)
- Right-click the iSweep Organizational Unit in the GPO tree and select “Block Inheritance”
- Right-click the iSweep Organizational Unit in the GPO tree and select “link an existing GPO”
- Select “CUA – iSweep Management” and click OK.
- Join the iSweeps to the Domain
- Log into the machine under the local account
- For Managed clients, this will be handled by CUA. For non-managed clients, you will be provided with credentials to the account LocalClient when you contact Network Services to set up the account.
- Click on the Start icon
- Click on the gear symbol to open the Settings page
- Click on System
- Click on the About tab, and select Join a Domain
- Enter the name of the domain you are joining
- Sign into the login prompt with a network account.
- The iSweep will authenticate to the domain. You will then need to restart.
- Move Active Directory computer objects for the iSweeps to the newly created Organizational Unit. (Most likely in the “Computers” OU by default).
- Restart all iSweep devices for the new Group Policy Settings to be applied.
- Log off of and re-launch ProDOC. If you do not receive a message stating that ProDOC is running in a “Degraded” mode, the process has been successful.
(If the error appears, the iSweep is not available to the workstation and will need troubleshooting.)