7.8 (Optional) Setting Up Email Communication with the Filr VM

The hands-on exercises leverage two of your personal email addresses:

If you are not interested in email notifications or external sharing as part of the end user exercises, you can skip all of the remaining sections and steps in this guide that are marked (Email Only).

If you want to experiment with email notifications that originate from Filr, you must complete the following sections:

7.8.1 (Email Only) Entering an Email Address for User ared

  1. On the Windows server, click Start > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers.

  2. Click the testusers container, then right-click user ared and select Properties.

  3. Type the email address you have chosen to use with these exercises, for example myworkemail@mycompany.com.

  4. Click OK, then continue with (Email Only) Synchronizing User ared’s Change with Filr.

7.8.2 (Email Only) Synchronizing User ared’s Change with Filr

  1. On the Windows workstation, in the Administration Console under System, click LDAP.

  2. Click Sync All.

    ared’s changes are synchronized.

  3. Click Close > OK.

  4. Continue with Section 8.0, Using Filr.