Activating your account

After you have set up and configured your on-premises environment by downloading and running the Domain Configuration tool, you must activate your account. When your account is activated, your on-premises servers can connect to the IBM SmartCloud® Notes® servers, and the SmartCloud Notes servers can connect to your on-premises servers.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have completed the task Verifying Internet domain names.

Procedure

  1. Log on to http://www.ibmcloud.com/social using the email address and password of a user with the Administrator role.
  2. If your account also has the User role, click Admin > Manage Organization.
  3. In the System Settings section of the navigation pane, click IBM SmartCloud Notes and then click Account Settings.
  4. Click Activate My Account.

What to do next

Make sure that the servers in the service can connect to your on-premises servers by completing the task Checking network connections from the service to on-premises servers.