Why should you automate Active Directory provisioning?

When we have moved on to mobile phones from the traditional wired telephones, why still struggle with the traditional methods when it comes to Active Directory management?

Manual user provisioning with native AD tools and scripting can be quite burdensome for IT admins, making it a time-consuming and a risk- prone process. Using these conventional ways of managing Active Directory is like sticking to wired telephones, ignoring the benefits and mobility that cellphones offer.

Here is how ADManager Plus can help you with easy solutions for user provisioning.

ADManager Plus' alternatives to traditional user provisioning

ADManager Plus, the comprehensive AD, Office 365, and Exchange management and reporting solution, solves all user provisioning challenges with several simple, yet secure options.

All inclusive user provisioning with customizable templates.
Bulk user provisioning with CSV import
Automated user provisioning with CSV
Automated user provisioning with inputs from HR application databases
Secure delegation of user provisioning to technicians
Configuring workflows with multi-level approval for executing user provisioning task

In this weekly series, we will take a look at how to use these options to create user accounts or identities, efficiently, quickly and easily.

For this week, let's walk you through customizing a user provisioning template.

1. Navigate to Management > User Management > User template> User Creation template.

2. Click the Create New Template button on the top right corner of the page.

3. Enter a suitable name and description for the template.

4. Select the Domain in which this template will be used.

5. Click User creation rules button for setting up rules to auto-fill desired attributes if the specified conditions are satisfied.

6. Click on Enable drag n drop button to customize the template by just dragging and dropping the required fields from the Field tray to the appropriate tab of the template and vice versa.

7. If you wish to configure the fields in the template with the attributes of an existing user account, click the Copy user attributes button. To enter the values for all the necessary fields manually, continue with the rest of the steps.

8. Click on General tab.

To change the name of this tab, click on the edit icon located before the tab name or double click on the name of the tab and enter a new name.
To hide or delete the entire tab and all its fields from the help desk technician during user creation, click on the '-' icon or 'x' icon located beside the tab name.

9. In the General tab, you will be able to find all the fields placed under one single field group. As needed, you can create new field groups and place the related fields in them.

10. Enter the necessary attribute values for the users to be created, in the General tab.

11. Similarly, click on Account, Contact, Exchange, Terminal, and Remote Mailbox tabs, and customize the desired settings.

12. To configure custom attributes, click on Custom Attributes tab.

Click on Configure Custom Attribute link to configure a custom attribute permanently in your Active Directory.
To add a custom attribute specifically for only one operation, click on Add Additional Attribute.
Select run script on creation option to run a custom script on creation of a user account.