Integrating Genetec Security Center with Active Directory for Centralized Access Control

A guide explains why Genetec Security Center deployments benefit from Active Directory integration instead of relying on local accounts. Local accounts across many servers and workstations are hard to maintain, leave weak audit trails, and complicate revoking access when staff leave. With AD, authentication is handled by the domain while Security Center maps group membership to roles and privileges. The article lists prerequisites including domain membership for Kerberos, time synchronization within a few minutes of the domain controller, and DNS pointed at the domain's own servers. It also notes that AD integration is a standard item in Genetec Health Checks.