How to integrate Slack with ADManager Plus

How to integrate Slack with ADManager Plus

Overview
Slack is a comprehensive cloud productivity platform used by many businesses for communication and collaboration. When integrated with ADManager Plus, you can leverage extensive benefits, such as user onboarding, files and folder access management, automation of workflows, enterprise security, and more, for all applications in your organization from a single point of access.

With this integration, you can schedule and automate various tasks in the Slack workplace from ADManager Plus. As an added advantage, you can monitor and regulate the execution of critical tasks, such as revoking licenses and deleting user accounts, by implementing business workflows.

Actions supported

The automation feature supports the following actions in ADManager Plus:

  1. Create user accounts
  1. Add users to groups
  1. Modify user attributes
  1. Remove users from groups
  1. Modify user accounts by template
  1. Create mailboxes
  1. Reset passwords
  1. Disable or delete mailboxes
  1. Unlock user accounts
  1. Move Home Folder
  1. Enable user accounts
  1. Delete Home Folder
  1. Disable user accounts
  1. Revoke Microsoft 365 licenses
  1. Delete user accounts
  1. Manage user photos
  1. Run custom scripts
  1. Disable Lync accounts
  1. Move users across groups
  1. Configure auto-reply settings
Steps to integrate ADManager Plus with Slack:

  1. Log in to ADManager Plus.

  1. Navigate to the Automation tab and click Application Integrations.

  1. Under HCM applications, click the Slack tile.

  1. Click Enable the Slack Configuration.

  1. Basic details under the Slack Endpoint configuration tab and Authorization tab are pre-filled.

  1. Under the Authorization tab, complete the fields for   Client ID and Client Secret after the OAuth app is configured in your Slack workspace.

  1. Copy and save the Callback URL, as you will need it while configuring the OAuth app in Slack. The steps to configure the OAuth app in Slack can be found here.

                              

  1. The pre-populated Slack Endpoint configuration retrieves all user information using the Repeat calling this endpoint option, where a maximum of 100 users per API call are fetched until there are no users in the endpoint. For more details, you can refer to this API documentation. To proceed, click Test & Save. 

 

                                            

  1. On successful configuration, the structure of the response data will be displayed. Now, click Proceed. 

  1. Finally, map the LDAP attributes with the appropriate Slack fields.



 

Steps to obtain the Slack Client ID and Client Secret: 
To create an OAuth App and get the Client ID, Redirect URl, and Client Secret, follow the steps below:

  1. Log in to your Slack Workspace

  1. Click Add apps in the left navigation panel.

  

  1. Now, click the App Directory, which will direct you to the App Directory page.

  1. In the App Directory page, click the Build button in the top-right corner.

 

  1. You will be redirected to the Slack API page. From there, locate and click Your Apps in the top-right corner.

 

  1. Click the Create New App button.

  1. Provide a suitable app name and choose the workspace in which you want to build the app.

  1. When you click Create App, credentials, such as a Client ID, Client Secret, and Verification Token, will be generated. These details have to be used in ADManager Plus while configuring the Authorization.

  1. Now, add the callback URL that you copied from ADManager Plus in the Redirect URL field and click Save URLs. 

  1. Next, scroll down to Scope and click Add an OAuth Scope and add admin.user:read to give ADManager Plus access to read the user data.

 

While configuring an automation in ADManager Plus, select Slack as the Data Source to automate user management. Click here to learn more about automation configuration.
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