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Activities



Connect to Active Directory

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  • ClearAttribute (text box editor type) (type: string): the attribute that will be cleared/removed.
  • Entry (text box editor type) (type: string): the entry path of the Active Directory entry, or bind this parameter with the output parameter of a Get Entry activity. If the Entry Path will be manually inserted, the accepted format should be written like in the following example: "LDAP://servername.dc1.com/CN=DemoUser,OU=DemoOU,DC=dc1,DC=com"



Using Get Entry activities: get Entry activities can be used in order to extract the needed entry paths from Active Directory. The steps below are describing a scenario of how to use both Get Entry and ClearADAttributeValue activity:

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Activity Parameters

The Delete Entry activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:


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Parameters:

  • Entry (combo box control) (type: string): the entry for the account, in this case the entry for an user account. The entry can be linked to a variable outputed by the GetEntry activity (for GetEntry binding usage, see the Add Computer To Group activity) or written by hand. The accepted format should be written as in the given example: "LDAP://servername.dc1.com/CN=DemoUser_1,OU=Users,DC=dc1,DC=com"


Delete Entry Recursive

This activity deletes specified entry from Active Directory including all sub objects.

Activity Parameters

The Delete Entry Recursive activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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Edit Account Expires

This activity sets the value of the "accountExpires" property for an Active Directory account.

Activity Parameters

The Edit Account Expires activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity allows Enable/Disable for an Active Directory computer account.

Activity Parameters

The Edit Computer Account Status activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity edits specified attribute(s) values of a specified input entry.

Activity Parameters

The Edit Entry activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity allows Enable/Disable or Lock/Unlock for an Active Directory user account.

Activity Parameters

The Edit User Account Status activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity returns the value stored on the accountExpires attribute.

Activity Parameters

The Get Account Expires activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity retrieves a collection of Active Directory entries (paths) based on the input filters.

Activity Parameters

The Get Entries by Filter activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity gets specified entry from Active Directory.

Activity Parameters

The Get Entry activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity gets specified entry and retrieves a collection containing the attributes and their corresponding values.

Activity Parameters

The Get Entry Attributes activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity returns the password expiration date.

Activity Parameters

The Get Password Expiration Date activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity returns the SID object and a string equivalent of an AD Entry.

Activity Parameters

The Get Entry SID activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity returns information about an entry, regarding the account status,password,account expiration date, email.

Activity Parameters

The Get User Account Status activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity retrieves a collection containing the groups the user is a member of.

Activity Parameters

The Get User Groups activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity retrieves a collection containing the users of a specified group.

Activity Parameters

The Get Users in Group activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity checks in the Active Directory if specified group has an entry in 'Groups' class.

Activity Parameters

The Group Exists activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity validates if user, group or computer-account is member of a specified Active Directory group.

Activity Parameters

The Is Member activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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Execution: the activity will search if the given user (Entry Path parameter) is a member of the given group (Group Path parameter). If yes, it will return True, otherwise False:






Join Computer to Domain

This activity joins a computer to a specified domain.

Activity Parameters

The Join Computer to Domain activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

  • Account Create (combo box editor type): specifies if the activity will also create a Computer account into Active Directory for the given machine. If set to Yes, then the account will be created in the given Destination OU or in the default location (if Destination OU is empty). If set to No, the activity will only join the computer to the domain, without creating an account for it.
  • Destination OU (text box editor type) (type: string): the Active Directory organizational unit (OU) where the new computer account will be created. If this parameter is specified and if the Account Create flag is set to Yes, then the new computer account will be created in this AD location. If the field is left empty and the Account Create flag is set to Yes, the new computer account will be created in the AD's default Computers location.
  • Domain (text box editor type) (type: string): the domain where the given machine will be joined. For example, "dc1.com".
  • Domain Join if Joined (combo box editor type) : specifies if the machine will rejoin the given domain, if it is already joined. If set to No, the machine will not rejoin the domain (only if it is already joined) and the activity message will be "The machine is already joined to the domain".
  • Machine Name (text box editor type) (type: string): the name of the machine which will be joined to the given domain. If Account Create is set to Yes, then this will also be the name of the AD computer account.
  • Password (password box editor type) (type: string): the password for the user which will try adding the machine to the domain.
  • Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the connection. This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encrypted password from outside the workflow, for example Flowster Studio Portal.
  • User Domain (text box editor type) (type: string): the domain of the user which will try to add the machine to the domain. For example "dc1.com", which is also the domain where the user is a member of.
  • Username (text box editor type) (type: string): the user which will try adding the machine to the domain. The user must have rights to perform this kind of operation.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

  • Output  (type: String): outputs the status of the operation.
 

Execution: the activity will try to add the given machine to the given domain, for example:




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This activity moves a specified entry to a new location in Active Directory.

Activity Parameters

The Move Entry activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity removes specified computer from specified group.

Activity Parameters

The Remove Computer from Group activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity removes group from specified group.

Activity Parameters

The Remove Group from Group activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity removes specified user from specified group.

Activity Parameters

The Remove User from Group activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity gives new value(s) to an AD attribute that needs to be renamed (for example, the name attribute needs a different method for assigning a new value that edit).

Activity Parameters

The Rename Entry activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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This activity checks in the Active Directory if specified user has an entry in 'User' Class..

Activity Parameters

The User Exists activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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