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UMRA – Create user (no AD) Example Tips and Help

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.

Previous UMRA Action Topics.
-Move – Rename (AD)
-Remove User Group Membership
-Set User Group Memberships
-Edit User (AD)
-Get User (AD)
-Create User (AD)

In this blog we will be talking about the UMRA action Create User (no AD). Now this action is very similar to the action Create User (AD) however, this action will create accounts on a local computer, comparison to Active Directory. Now this action does have the ability to create an account in Active Directory, however if you leave the %domain% variable cleared out, then it will create it on the targeted computer account, here is the quick tip in the action in UMRA.

“The name of the domain (NT4 style, e.g. PLANETS, not planets.tools4ever.com) where the account will be created. If no domain or computer is specified, the account is created on the local computer”

Now, this is a very handy tip to remember per the notes on the UMRA action Create User (no AD). Now, some of you might be asking, why would you want to create a local computer account. Simple, if you don’t have active directory, or even want to give special access to a group of users to a user base, this is a perfect way to do this in BULK, or mange those accounts on a local computer. We haven’t talked about the Edit user (no AD), and Delete user (no AD) yet, however these will help manage these type of non AD accounts. So lets get to it, below is a quick over view of some of the properties of the UMRA action Create User (no AD).

Domain -
This by default is set to %domain%, please note the quote above from this action. Setting this property can change this action completely.

Computer -
This is the computer name where the account will be created.

Name generation algorithm + Username + Full name
Now all these functions can work together, or separate, however in most cases our clients will use the Name generation algorithm to match what there current business naming algorithm is. Or example, you can take the first initial of the firstname, then lastname and combine those to make a complete username so Joe Fox, would be jfox. Now if the username is already in use, we can move to your naming iterater, such as a number on the end of the username, example would be if jfox was taken, it will now try jfox1, and jfox2…. It will keep on iterating until it finds a username that is not in use in Active Directory.

Password generator + password
Very similar to the above action, these are mostly used in conjunction with each other, if you want to create a unique password from the generator you can, and then have that pass back the %password% variable to your other functions. Or you can use a composite password comprised of info passed to the script.

These are the most properties that are used when using the UMRA action Create User (no AD). So I hope this helps some of you out there with any questions you might have had when trying to use this.