1. About this guide
Who this guide is for, how it is organised and the conventions it uses.
This guide is for the people who install, configure and run Ada Data Classification: IT and security administrators, the team that owns endpoint deployment, and auditors who review activity. It describes release 1.3.83 and covers every page of the admin console, field by field, with screenshots.
| Part | Chapters |
|---|---|
| Getting started | 2 Product overview · 3 Installing the server · 4 Console basics · 5 First deployment walkthrough |
| Foundations | 6 Settings (License, Certificate, Time, Active Directory, Email, Syslog, Security, Database) · 7 Console users, roles and your account |
| Building the policy | 8 Labels · 9 Groups · 10 Rules · 11 AI Classification |
| Rolling out | 12 Deploying agents and add-ins · 13 Managing agents · 14 What users see on endpoints |
| Running it | 15 Monitoring, audit and reports · 16 Status, System and Backup |
| Reference | 17 Troubleshooting · Appendices A–D |
Why this order. Ada’s groups and console roles can be built on Active Directory groups, alerts need an e-mail server, and the SIEM feed needs syslog. That is why the foundation settings (chapter 6) come before labels, groups and rules: configure them once and everything that follows can use them.
Conventions
- Console paths are written with arrows, exactly as the sidebar shows them: Policy → Rules → Outlook Rules.
- Button, field and option names are in bold and use the console’s exact wording.
ada.example.comstands for your Ada server’s DNS name,CONTOSO/contoso.comfor your domain. Machine and user names in the screenshots (WS-HR-021, j.smith, …) are examples.- Platform tags (Windows), (macOS), (web) mark features that are limited to one platform. In the console the same information is shown by small Windows and Apple icons next to a setting.
- Commands that start with
sudo adactlrun on the Ada server. PowerShell commands run on Windows clients,bashcommands on macOS clients. - Callouts: Note adds context, Tip is a recommendation, Important warns about something that can break enforcement or lose data.
The in-console help (the ⓘ icons and ? panels) always describes the version you are running. Where this guide and the console disagree, the console wins.