Knowledgebase : User Management
Adding AD Functional accounts manually
REGISTERING FUNCTIONAL ACCOUNTS MANUALLY 1. While logged into the user interface, navigate to the USERS & GROUPS > click on FUNCTIONAL ACCOUNTS tab. 2. Click on ADD A FUNCTIONAL ACCOUNT button. 3. Enter the NAME. 4. Enter the EMAIL ADDRESS. 5. S...
Customer list information
CUSTOMER LIST INFORMATION For Reseller accounts, a list of customers is found in the Customer tab. You can navigate to the appropriate customer here. However, you can get more detailed information of accounts as well, expanding the table to include the i...
Determining who receives SMTP Discovery Report
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Groups Vs Functional Accounts
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How To Add Users manually
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Is it possible to convert a user account to a functional account?
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Mass update feature
MASS UPDATE The mass update feature allows you to apply a change across all or a large set of users. For example, if you have loaded users as silent users you may want to change them to an end user to ensure they receive the quarantine digest and can lo...
SMTP Discovery
SITUATION SMTP Discovery (another way to provisioning new users) allows email to be relayed to non-licensed users. Users become licensed-users when manually added within a span of 30 days, a specified number of valid messages are received for that uniq...
SMTP Discovery management
Choosing the SMTP Discovery method to add customer accounts will require a certain amount of on-going management attention and administration to ensure accounts are up to date and license balances are accurate. To make this process more manageable for y...
Steps for adding users by CSV upload
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User Provisioning Options
SITUATION When a subscribing organization is using the Proofpoint Essentials service the minimum configuration is that one single domain is filtered by the Proofpoint Essentials service and adding users to the Proofpoint Essentials interface is an esse...