Configure manual authentication

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Identify your domains

Your domains are on the right-hand side of your email addresses after the @ symbol for your users. Usually, it's your company name followed by .com or .co.uk, for example, the email: [email protected], the domain would be compaydomain1.com.
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To complete the following steps, gather at least one email address from each domain you wish to register and ensure that you have the ability to test email messages with at least one user per domain that is to be registered.
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If in doubt, your IT team should be able to support you with understanding what your domains are.

2

Identify who manages your domain

Typically, someone from your IT department has access to the domain DNS. You need to locate whomever can add a TXT record to this to verify ownership of the domain.

3

Identify who manages your authentication

Usually, your IT department manages your domain and associated security policies.

4

Register for identity

To register each domain with Access Identity, you need to register at least one email address per domain. To do this, go to https://identity.accessacloud.com/ or http://identity.eu.access-evo.com/ (EU hosted customers) and click Create New Account.
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​Note: If you already registered with Access Identity due to using other Access products, when you click the link you can either enter your password or reset your password to access your Identity account if you have forgotten this.
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You need to do this with one email per domain you wish to set up. Ideally, this person should be someone with administration rights in your business in case you need to come back and edit this later, such as a central IT team member.
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This is a once off task with one user per domain.

5

Setup Security Policy or Policies

Once you've registered, you need your IT team or your domain manager to follow and complete the steps in our security guide once per domain.

6

Run a test

Once you have done this, sign out of Access Identity. To test your setup, go back to the homepage https://identity.accessacloud.com/ or http://identity.eu.access-evo.com/ and login again.

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You're good to go

If you can do this and successfully get back to Access Identity, your domain is set up, and all users with the same email domain will be ready to login via the security policy you have created.