Last week's article was a detailed guide on creating customized user provisioning templates. If you missed it, click here to catch up on it.

This week's post will take you through automating bulk user provisioning with CSV import options. 

How to automate user provisioning with a CSV file using ADManager Plus?

1. Navigate to Automation tab > Automation > Create New Automation
   

2. Configure the following settings.
   

• Automation policy Name and Description - Enter a suitable name and description for the automation process.
  

• Automation Category - Choose User Management.
  

• Domain - Choose the domain and OUs where the task should be run in.
  

• Automation Task/Policy - From the 'Automation policy' list, select the 'user provisioning' policy.
  

• Location of CSV - Choose the location of your CSV file which contains the list of users to be provisioned.
  

• Implement Business Workflow - Enable this option if you wish that the user creation be carried out after approval. This option will automatically create a user creation request; once it is approved by the appropriate technician or user mentioned in the workflow, the user accounts will be created in AD.
  

• Select the Execution time and Frequency at which you want the automated user provisioning to be done.
  

• Enable the Notification option if you wish to be notify the technician every time the automation gets executed.
  




3.  Click Save.