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UMRA – Edit User (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.

In this blog post we are going to talk about the UMRA action Edit User (AD). This action is very similar to the UMRA action Create User (AD) in a sense that you can edit and configure many of the user objects attributes in Active Directory. But unlike the UMRA action Create User (AD) that creates a user, and then updates its attributes in Active Directory. The UMRA action Edit User (AD) Edits almost all the attributes of an existing user in Active Directory. In most scenarios you would use this action if you wanted to update a lot of attributes at once, you can use this action if you just want to set one attribute, however, it might be a little over kill since you can just use the “Set Attribute” function in UMRA. So lets get down to it and talk about some of these Property values and what they do in the UMRA action Edit User (AD).

Password generator -
If you wanted to regenerate a password for you’re the user object your binded to you can, you can also have these then sent out to the users email address to advise of new email.
More Info Can be found here > http://activedirectoryadmin.blogspot.com/2009/08/umra-create-user-ad-password-generation.html

User must change password at next logon –
This one is self explanatory. However, if you don’t know what it does, what It does its flag the user account to be prompted to change their password upon the next successful login. This is one of the most widely used features for this UMRA action.

Account disabled -
This function if selected as “Yes” the user account will be disabled in Active Directory. If the function is selected as “No” the account will be Active in Active Directory. Now if a user Account is disabled, and you select “Yes” is will readable the account in Active Directory, and vice versa for an active account.

Account Expiration -
This function allows you to set a date, either by a generated date with UMRA or a hard coded date to know when the account will be expired in Active Directory.

The rest of the functions are your basic User Object attributes, such as email, description, phone number etc. I hope this helps some of you out there get a better idea of what the UMRA action Edit User (AD) does, and some of its features.