View Service Connections

The Service Connections page displays the connections that allow your Recast Management Server to query information from third-party services. You can find the page in RMS by navigating to Administration > Service Connections.

Recast Management Server - Service Connections page

Service connection details and actions:

  • Confirmed: Shows whether a service connection is confirmed as available for use. You can confirm a service connection that is not currently available by clicking View/Edit and the Confirmed check box.
  • Connection: Service connection name
  • Type: Active Directory, Azure Active Directory (Entra ID), MEMCM (Configuration Manager), MBAM, SMTP, Copilot Gateway. For information on the service connection requirements for Recast products and features, see Service Connection Types.
  • Sync Status: Current status of a service connection data sync.
    • In Progress - Recast Management Server is actively retrieving service connection data
    • Complete - Data sync has completed successfully
    • Error - Data sync has failed
    • Unknown - Displayed before an initial Active Directory or Configuration Manager data sync or when IIS is reset after a data sync
    • N/A - Currently displayed for Azure Active Directory(Entra ID) and MBAM service connections. 
  • Last Sync Status Change: Date and time the latest service connection data sync started, completed, or failed. For information on viewing or editing the data sync schedule, see Synchronize Service Connection Data.
  • Actions
    • View/Edit service connection details. See Edit a Service Connection.
    • Sync Now to immediately update service connection data from Configuration Manager or Active Directory. See Synchronize Service Connection Data.
    • Test the connection between your Recast Management Server and a third-party service.
    • Delete a service connection so that your Recast Management Server will no longer request data from the third-party environment. 

NOTE: When a service connection is deleted, your Recast Management Server can no longer query information from the third-party environment.