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UMRA – Create User (AD) Password Generation Example

If you have already read my blog about some of the basics on the Create User (AD) UMRA Action then please visit http://activedirectoryadmin.blogspot.com/2009/08/umra-create-user-ad-action-help.html that blog to catch up to speed on this post.

So if you’ve been following along since my last blog, you will know that we are going over some to the Property values in the Create User (AD) UMRA action. We have already covered ways to set the user creation point, and also the UMRA naming algorithm that you can set to whatever you like. So in this post we will be covering on the Password Generation action in the properties menu. What is the password generation property you ask? Well, it allows for passwords to be randomly on the fly, based on the length, input that you put in. Now there are a few ways that you can set a new users password in active directory upon creation, one way is to take a combination of data, such as there lastname, and there employee or student id, combine this data, and have that as their initial password, and then flag there account to change it upon the next successful login. The other method we will talk about below.

So if you want to set your password as something randomly created on the fly, that meets your active directory password complexity, then use the password generation property within the create user action. With this tool, you can now create passwords on the fly, when you open up the property, you can set the length of the randomly created password, and you can set how much lowercase letters you need, uppercase, numbers, special characters etc. Once you’ve set everything, you can hit the text button, and see the passwords that is creating. As you can see this process is very simple, but yet one of the most powerful tools within the create user action. Now some of you might be asking, “once we create the account, how will I know what the password is?” There are a few ways of doing this, within UMRA there are some actions that allow you to write data to a text file, update a database, or even send an email with this data. In most cases of UMRA Automation projects we do, our clients will have us email the username and password that was used with creating the account, this way they will always have this on hand when a new user is created.

So I hope these last 2 blogs have helped some of you out there with the UMRA action Create User (AD). In later posts we will talk more about the different actions with UMRA at an deeper glance to help you further understand UMRA a bit better.