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Set up Policy Engines

Setting up policy engines requires a number of pre- and post-installation tasks:

1. Set up the required user accounts.

   Before you can deploy your policy engines, you must specify a Windows domain user that allows the policy engines and hub to communicate. You must also create a new CA Data Protection user account.

2. Edit the machine policy on each policy engine host server.

   After installing a policy engines, you must edit its machine policy. In particular, you must configure these settings:

   • Unknown Internal Sender
   • External Sender
   • Internal Email Address Pattern
   • Default Policy for Files
3. Edit the registry on each policy engine host server to enable user lookup operations.
4. (Optional) You can configure CA Data Protection to detect, analyze, and apply policy to emails encrypted by Voltage SecureMail. As part of the integration setup for SecureMail, you must edit registry values on your policy engines to identify the SecureMail server.

More information:

Configure the Local Machine Policy

Deploying Policy Engines

Specify PE User Accounts

Configure the Policy Engine Registry Values