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UMRA – Create User (AD) Action Help Examples and Tips

So we are going to be getting back to the basics of UMRA and how some of the drag/drop items work. I will be coving at first some of the basics such as Create User, Get User, and other User Tree actions in UMRA. Now, most of you will be using the “Create User” action in your UMRA scripts but might need a little explanation of some of the property values you can set when creating a user. The “Create User” action is one of the most widely used, and one of the most versatile actions on the list, so with that said let’s get into the details of this action.

So for the sake of time, I will only cover some of the Property values in the Create User action that really have a lot of weight on the Creation of the User, and have the most flexibility in integration into your script.

Now when creating a user there are two ways you can set where the user is created, by the DistiniguistedName or canonicalname of the OU they need to go in.

Organization Unit-Container –
Here you will need to define the DistinguishedName of the OU, so for example OU=2012,OU=Students,OU=East HighSchool,… etc.

LDAP Container -
Here you can specific the canonicalname of the container so for example mydomain.local/Schools/East HighSchool/Students/2012

For me I prefer to use the LDAP Container method since it’s easier to understand, and allows for less errors due to having to create a full dn for placement.

Right now I would assume you use some type of naming convention for your students, or staff, or any type of active directory user such as jfox, of 23424. With UMRA you have the Name Generation Algorithm method available to you, IF you want to use it. If you don’t want to use it, and you know that your ID’s will be unique, then you can bypass this feature, however if you want to use this, you will see there are a ton of options for this.

Name Generation Algorithm -
There are a few ways you can do this, for example if you want to take the firstname and lastname from a CSV or from a database, and combine those to make the username you can, but sometimes you might find that you have a jsmith already in use in your Active Directory, so what do you do? You can use the Name Generation Algorithm within your UMRA Create User action. This feature is very handy since it will check to make sure the name you’ve created is already in use, and if it is, do some type of iteration. This iteration can be adding a number at the end of the username, or getting the middle initial of the user, and add that to there username.

So as you can see these are just 2 of the over 40 actions and properties you can set when you are using the Create user (AD) action in UMRA. In my next post I will talk about other features of this action.