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Administering Pearl Echo Profiles 

You can Add, Remove and Select the Current Profile in the  Profile Settings  

command of the Security menu. 

Your existing User and Group names define a profile. When Pearl Echo Server 

Software is installed on a machine that is part of a Domain using the Active 

Directory Service, Pearl Echo will access and display the available User and 

Group names from the Active Directory database.  If Active Directory Service 

is not available, Pearl Echo will access and display the available User and 

Group names from the server on which it is installed.  If you have not 

installed the Pearl Echo Server software on a Windows server, you can 

manually create the User names of profiles that you would like to manage. 

When a managed User attempts to access the Internet, their activity is 

governed by a Profile's configuration settings. Pearl Echo first looks for a 

matching User profile. If no matching User profile is found, Pearl Echo looks 

for a Group profile to which the User belongs. If no matching Group profiles 

are found, Pearl Echo uses the settings defined by your Default profile. If a 

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