Overview

While creating user accounts locally, by mapping from a directory service, or with a template, it requires adding user details in the Administration interface. When editing or changing user details, such as Full, First, or Last name, the Contact information should be altered.

Newly-created and existing users have a set of built-in features, such as forwarding, groups, rights, quotas, etc.

Note: Your license limits the number of accounts you can create.

Preconditions

Access to the Kerio Connect administration console

Solution

Creating Local Accounts

Go to Accounts > Users.
Select a domain for the new account. All accounts must belong to a domain.
Click Add > Add Local User. You may create and use a template for adding multiple users with similar settings.
On the General tab, type a new username and password for the user. The domain may require a secure password.

Note: Usernames are not case-sensitive and cannot include spaces or special characters. For more information, refer to the password policy in Kerio Connect article.
Click OK.
Confirm that the created user account is displayed in the section Accounts > Users.

Full Name Change

In the case of a Full Name change for a user account in Webadmin, the new information does NOT repopulate the Contacts section in the Webmail. In this case, the contact card should be modified directly in the Webmail.

Note: Review the Editing Existing Contacts section of the article Creating Contacts in Kerio Connect Client for more information on this process.

If the First name and the Last name fields are filled in the Contact tab, as they are in the example below, Kerio Connect overwrites the Full name value and displays the Firstname and the Lastname information in Webmail.

Features of New User Accounts

Each user account has many useful features, which are listed below.

Create email address aliases.
Forward messages to another mailbox, inside or outside Kerio Connect.
Add the user to existing groups.
Set space quotas.
Configure access rights to the administration interface and restrict access to services.
Manage account limits for parameters such as message count and sending outgoing messages, and maintain accounts (e.g., message clean-out).
Add personal and contact information.

Mapping Accounts From a Directory Service

Follow these steps to add users from a directory service:

Connect Kerio Connect to a directory service.
Activate the users in the administration interface by following the process detailed below:
1. Go to Accounts > Users.
2. Select a domain for the account.
3. Click Add > Activate an existing User From Directory Service.
4. Select the users that you want to map to Kerio Connect. You can also add the users later.
5. Click Next and then click Finish.
6. Confirm that the activated user accounts display in the section Accounts > Users.

For more information, please refer to the Adding Users from Active Directory to Kerio Connect article.

Using Templates to Create User Accounts

If you plan to create multiple local accounts with similar settings, you can create a template by following these steps:

Go to Configuration > Definitions > User Templates.
Click Add. Type a name for the template and specify the standard settings for all users.
Save the settings.
Go to Accounts > Users.
Click Add > Use Template > select the necessary Template and create user accounts.
Confirm that the created user accounts display in the section Accounts > Users.