NOTE: User accounts can only be moved within a domain.
To move a user account
- Select the Active Directory | User accounts category.
- Select the user account in the result list.
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Select the Change master data task.
- Select the Change Active Directory container task.
- Confirm the security prompt with Yes.
- Select the new container from the Containers menu on the General tab.
- Save the changes.
Extended properties are meta objects, such as operating codes, cost codes, or cost accounting areas that cannot be mapped directly in One Identity Manager.
To specify extended properties for a user account
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In the Manager, select the Active Directory | User accounts category.
- Select the user account in the result list.
- Select the Assign extended properties task.
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In the Add assignments pane, assign extended properties.
TIP: In the Remove assignments pane, you can remove assigned extended properties.
To remove an assignment
- Select the extended property and double-click .
- Save the changes.
For detailed information about using extended properties, see the One Identity Manager Identity Management Base Module Administration Guide.
When you add a user account, an existing employee can be assigned automatically or added if necessary. In the process, the employee master data is created on the basis of existing user account master data. This mechanism can be triggered after a new user account is created either manually or through synchronization. Define criteria for finding employees to apply to automatic employee assignment. If a user account is linked to an employee through the current mode, the user account is given, through an internal process, the default manage level of the account definition entered in the user account's target system. You can customize user account properties depending on how the behavior of the manage level is defined.
If you run this procedure during working hours, automatic assignment of employees to user accounts takes place from that moment onwards. If you disable the procedure again later, the changes only affect user accounts added or updated after this point in time. Existing employee assignments to user accounts remain intact.
NOTE: It is not recommended to assign employees using automatic employee assignment in the case of administrative user accounts. Use Change master data to assign employees to administrative user accounts for the respective user account.
Run the following tasks to assign employees automatically.
NOTE:
The following applies for synchronization:
- Automatic employee assignment takes effect if user accounts are added or updated.
The following applies outside synchronization:
- Automatic employee assignment takes effect if user accounts are added.
NOTE:
Following a synchronization, employees are automatically created for the user accounts in the default installation. If an account definition for the domain is not yet known at the time of synchronization, user accounts are linked with employees. However, account definitions are not assigned. The user accounts are therefore in a Linked state.
To manage the user accounts using account definitions, assign an account definition and a manage level to these user accounts.
To select user accounts through account definitions
- Create an account definition.
- Assign an account definition to the domain.
- Assign a user account in the Linked state to the account definition. The account definition's default manage level is applied to the user account.
- In the Manager, select the Active Directory | User accounts | Linked but not configured | <Domain> category.
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In the Manager, select the Active Directory | Contacts | Linked but not configured | <Domain> category.
- Select the Assign account definition to linked accounts task.
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In the Account definition menu, select the account definition.
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Select the user accounts that contain the account definition.
- Save the changes.
For more detailed information about assigning employees automatically, see the One Identity Manager Target System Base Module Administration Guide.
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The criteria for employee assignments are defined for the domain. In this case, you specify which user account properties must match the employee’s properties such that the employee can be assigned to the user account. You can limit search criteria further by using format definitions. The search criterion is written in XML notation to the Search criteria for automatic employee assignment column (AccountToPersonMatchingRule) in the ADSDomain table.
Search criteria are evaluated when employees are automatically assigned to user accounts. Furthermore, you can create a suggestion list for assignments of employees to user accounts based on the search criteria and make the assignment directly.
NOTE: When the employees are assigned to user accounts on the basis of search criteria, user accounts are given the default manage level of the account definition entered in the user account's target system. You can customize user account properties depending on how the behavior of the manage level is defined.
It is not recommended to make assignments to administrative user accounts based on search criteria. Use Change master data to assign employees to administrative user accounts for the respective user account.
NOTE: One Identity Manager supplies a default mapping for employee assignment. Only carry out the following steps when you want to customize the default mapping.
To specify criteria for employee assignment
- Select the Active Directory | Domains category.
- Select the domain in the result list.
- Select the Define search criteria for employee assignment task.
- Specify which user account properties must match with which employee so that the employee is linked to the user account.
Table 46: Default search criteria for user accounts and contacts
Active Directory user accounts |
Central user account (CentralAccount) |
Login name (pre Win2000)(SAMAccountName) |
Active Directory contacts |
Central user account (CentralAccount) |
Name (Cn) |
- Save the changes.
Direct assignment of employees to user accounts based on a suggestion list
In the Assignments pane, you can create a suggestion list for assignments of employees to user accounts based on the search criteria and make the assignment directly. User accounts are grouped in different views for this.
Table 47: Manual assignment view
Suggested assignments |
This view lists all user accounts to which One Identity Manager can assign an employee. All employees are shown who were found using the search criteria and can be assigned. |
Assigned user accounts |
This view lists all user accounts to which an employee is assigned. |
Without employee assignment |
This view lists all user accounts to which no employee is assigned and for which no employee was found using the search criteria. |
TIP: By double-clicking on an entry in the view, you can view the user account and employee master data.
To apply search criteria to user accounts
To assign employees directly using a suggestion list
- Click Suggested assignments.
- Check the Selection box of all the user accounts to which you want to assign the suggested employees. Multi-select is possible.
- Click Assign selected.
- Confirm the security prompt with Yes.
The employees found using the search criteria are assigned to the selected user accounts.
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- Click No employee assignment.
- Click the Select employee option of the user account to which you want to assign an employee. Select an employee from the menu.
- Check the Selection box of all the user accounts to which you want to assign the selected employees. Multi-select is possible.
- Click Assign selected.
- Confirm the security prompt with Yes.
The employees displayed in the Employee column are assigned to the selected user accounts.
To remove assignments
- Click Assigned user accounts.
- Click the Selection box of all user accounts you want to delete the employee assignment from. Multi-select is possible.
- Click Remove selected.
- Confirm the security prompt with Yes.
The assigned employees are removed from the selected user accounts.
For more detailed information about defining search criteria, see the One Identity Manager Target System Base Module Administration Guide.
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