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Installing Windows Connect

Windows Connect is an application through which Jadaptive services, such as Password Express and the Jadaptive VPN can communicate with your Active Directory quickly and securely.

Windows Connect performs user interactions using PowerShell and only needs to be installed on a domain connected machine. It does not have to be installed on your Domain Controller, but will work equally as well if it is.

The requirements for Windows Connect to work are:

Powershell with the Active Directory module must be installed on the Domain connected Computer.
The client must be able to communicate outbound to your on TCP/2222. This is a secure reverse SSH connection by which the client enables communication with your AD.

1. Installation

Log in to your Password Express tenant, or Jadaptive VPN server with your admin account, select the Security Menu, then Windows Domain.

As we have not configured anything yet, this list will be blank. Click the Download link to download the installer.

On the system you want to install Windows Connect, run the installer.

Click Next.

Alter the install location if you prefer, or leave it as the default. Click Next.

The installer should copy files and check for the required Powershell and AD modules and will prompt you to add them if they are missing.

Enter the hostname of your Password Express tenant, or Jadaptive VPN server, assuming you have not changed this, keep the port as the default 443.

Click Next.

2. Configuring Windows Connect

The installer will now need to pair with your Password Express tenant, or Jadaptive VPN server and will now display a URL and an authorisation code. The installer will attempt to automatically open your web browser and connect to the displayed URL, but if it doesn’t, go this URL manually.

In the browser, click on My Account.

If the browser automatically launched, the authorization code should be automatically filled in (if not, type this code in as displayed in the installer).

Click Add Device.

Now click Approve to grant access.

Windows Connect is now configured and you can continue setting up your tenant.

In the installer, click Finish to exit.

3. Review Config and Filter by Group

In Security->Windows Domain, you will now see your configured Windows Connect node, which should have the same name as the hostname of the server you installed it on.

In the Filter tab, you can choose to restrict user access to specific user groups.

Type in the Group name(s) that you wish to restrict access to, click + or press enter to add the group to a list and click Save.

From the Nodes page, if you click on the Windows Clients link you will be able to see the connection state of the Windows Connect node.

Here for example, we can see the status is green, so the node is connected.

4. User Synchronization

It is worth mentioning here how Windows Connect synchronizes users and how this differs from previous products.

At this stage, if you navigate to Security->Users, you will see that only your admin account is showing.

This is because Windows Connect only synchronizes a user at the point of them authenticating with the tenant for the first time.

Our previous products synchronized on a schedule, but this is not done with Connect as it will only sync users when it needs them.

Therefore you will see this Users page populate as your users start to interact with the system.