Viewing general preferences

The general preferences page shows the current settings for:

Alerts

The alerts setting shows the address to which copies of system-level email alert messages are sent. These alerts are the email messages sent to resource owners such as resellers and organizations sites when resource usage warning levels pool usage warning levels are reached. These levels are established when the system is set up. Service providers and resource owners set these levels when they manage pools and server resources. Email alerts are also sent to the address specified on this page.

Usage warning levels are the percentage of resource usage that triggers alerts. When the warning level is reached, email alerts are sent to resellers and organizations sites who own the resource so they can take action before resources are exhausted.

Auto login reminder

When you use auto login to access a control panel, a pop-up reminder is displayed. It enables you to confirm or cancel the auto-login, and it reminds you that you can click Log Out to return to your control panel when you are done.

Auto login settings include:

. The reminder is turned on (default). The pop-up is displayed whenever you use auto-login to access a control panel.

. The reminder is turned off. The pop-up is not displayed.

By default, the auto-login reminder is turned on. You can change this setting at any time. The changes you make apply only to your control panel; they do not affect the settings of your resellers or organizations control panels.

Display name

The display name setting determines how organization usernames are stored by the Active Directory server. This property is used with service features such as the address book in Hosted Exchange 2003. Also, the display name preference determines how usernames are displayed on the organization's users list.

Options for this setting include:

Default settings

The default setting is First name, Last name. After you add an organization, the organization administrator can change the display name preference for the organization any time.

How changes affect organizations

When users are added to organizations, their names are stored by the Active Directory server according to the current display name preferences. If you change the display name preferences in the service provider or reseller control panel, existing organizations user display names are not affected; their usernames are displayed either:

However, if you change an existing user's properties, the new setting is applied to that user as well.

Changes made in the organization control panel

If you change the display name setting in the organization control panel, the change is applied to all existing users in the organization as well as to any new users that are created.

You can change the display name preference any time.

Contact information

Contact information includes:

To change contact information, click edit at the bottom of the form, type the new information in the text boxes, then click Save.

How to get to the general preferences page

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