McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange 8.6.0

On-Demand settings

Access the On-Demand Settings page to modify the MSMEODUser password credentials.

McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange creates a user MSMEODUser in the Active Directory during the product installation on the mailbox server. This user is required to perform on-demand scanning on mailboxes.

To comply with your organization security policy, you might require to update the MSMEODUser password at regular intervals.

From the interface, navigate to Settings & Diagnostics | On-Demand Settings.

Option Definition
User Name MSMEODUser — The user that performs on-demand scanning.
This is a read-only field.
Type password Type the password.
Confirm password Confirm the password.
Reset this password in LDAP also Select this option to synchronize the password update with the Active Directory and other exchange servers.
Check this option only when you initiate the password reset from the On-Demand settings page.
You can update the MSMEODUser password in two ways:
Reset the password in the Active Directory, then update the password in the On-Demand Settings page.
Reset the password from the On-Demand Settings page.
Reset the password using Active Directory Reset the password using On-Demand Settings page
1Update the password in the Active Directory.
2Go to any of the mailbox role system within the same Active Directory.
3Launch the McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange interface.
4From Settings & Diagnostics, navigate to the On-Demand settings page, then update the password.
5Deselect the Reset the password in LDAP also option.
6Click Apply.
1Launch the McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange interface. 3Check the Reset the password in LDAP also option to make sure that the password update is synchronized with the Active Directory.
2From Settings & Diagnostics, navigate to the On-Demand settings page, then update the password. 4Click Apply.
For managed systems, you can update the MSMEODUser password from ePolicy Orchestrator.
It might take up to a minute to apply this setting in all exchange servers within the domain. Please run an on-demand scan after updating the password for verification.

For more information about the MSMEODUser, see McAfee KnowledgeBase article KB82332.