User guide

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Quarantine Manager
6.0 User Guide Managing Settings and Diagnostics
Managing users
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Advanced Settings
Managing users
With the User Management option, you can specify how users are authenticated,
determine what types of quarantined items they are allowed to see, and specify how
long those items are kept. You can authenticate users, set their access parameters, as
well as manage their accounts.
User Management consists of these sections:
General
Account Management
User Synchronization
General
To authenticate users or to set up various quarantine options, select the General tab to
display the general user management options.
1 In the
Maximum Item Age (days) field, type the number of days that quarantined items
will be stored.
2 In the Visible Detections field, select the type of items that users can view, for
example
Spam or Phish.
3 In the Authentication field, specify whether the user must be authenticated using
existing organization accounts (
Windows Authentication for Active Directory) or whether a
new McAfee
Quarantine Manager accounts needs to be setup or using Lotus Domino
account.
4 In the Restore Defaults field, click Restore to restore the settings back to the original
configurations.
5 Click
Apply to save the changes.
The general settings used are:
Maximum Item Age (days) To specify the maximum number of days an item will be
stored. Users will not be allowed to set a maximum item age any larger than the
value entered. Type a value between
1 and 100. The default value is 14 days.
Visible Detections To specify the detection types that users can view. The
detections are spam, phish, PUPs and unwanted content.
Active Directory To authenticate using existing active directory organization
accounts.
Note
This option is only available for the Super Administrator account.