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Active Roles 7.5.2 - Administration Guide

Introduction About Active Roles Getting Started Rule-based Administrative Views Role-based Administration
Access Templates as administrative roles Access Template management tasks Examples of use Deployment considerations Windows claims-based Access Rules
Rule-based AutoProvisioning and Deprovisioning
About Policy Objects Policy Object management tasks Policy configuration tasks
Property Generation and Validation User Logon Name Generation Group Membership AutoProvisioning E-mail Alias Generation Exchange Mailbox AutoProvisioning AutoProvisioning for SaaS products OneDrive Provisioning Home Folder AutoProvisioning Script Execution Office 365 and Azure Tenant Selection User Account Deprovisioning Office 365 Licenses Retention Group Membership Removal Exchange Mailbox Deprovisioning Home Folder Deprovisioning User Account Relocation User Account Permanent Deletion Group Object Deprovisioning Group Object Relocation Group Object Permanent Deletion Notification Distribution Report Distribution
Deployment considerations Checking for policy compliance Deprovisioning users or groups Restoring deprovisioned users or groups Container Deletion Prevention policy Picture management rules Policy extensions
Workflows
Understanding workflow Workflow activities overview Configuring a workflow
Creating a workflow definition Configuring workflow start conditions Configuring workflow parameters Adding activities to a workflow Configuring an Approval activity Configuring a Notification activity Configuring a Script activity Configuring an If-Else activity Configuring a Stop/Break activity Configuring an Add Report Section activity Configuring a Search activity Configuring CRUD activities Configuring a Save Object Properties activity Configuring a Modify Requested Changes activity Enabling or disabling an activity Enabling or disabling a workflow Using the initialization script
Example: Approval workflow E-mail based approval Automation workflow Activity extensions
Temporal Group Memberships Group Family Dynamic Groups Active Roles Reporting Management History
Understanding Management History Management History configuration Viewing change history
Workflow activity report sections Policy report items Active Roles internal policy report items
Examining user activity
Entitlement Profile Recycle Bin AD LDS Data Management One Identity Starling Management One Identity Starling Two-factor Authentication for Active Roles Managing One Identity Starling Connect Azure AD, Office 365, and Exchange Online management
Configuring Active Roles to manage hybrid AD objects Managing Hybrid AD Users Unified provisioning policy for Azure O365 Tenant Selection, Office 365 License Selection, and Office 365 Roles Selection, and OneDrive provisioning Office 365 roles management for hybrid environment users Managing Office 365 Contacts Managing Hybrid AD Groups Managing Office 365 Groups Managing Azure Security Groups Managing cloud-only Azure users Managing cloud-only Azure guest users Managing cloud-only Azure contacts Changes to Active Roles policies for cloud-only Azure objects Managing room mailboxes
Managing Configuration of Active Roles
Connecting to the Administration Service Adding and removing managed domains Using unmanaged domains Evaluating product usage Creating and using virtual attributes Examining client sessions Monitoring performance Customizing the console Using Configuration Center Changing the Active Roles Admin account Enabling or disabling diagnostic logs Active Roles Log Viewer
SQL Server Replication Appendix A: Using regular expressions Appendix B: Administrative Template Appendix C: Communication ports Appendix D: Active Roles and supported Azure environments Appendix E: Enabling Federated Authentication Appendix F: Active Roles integration with other One Identity and Quest products Appendix G: Active Roles integration with Duo Appendix H: Active Roles integration with Okta

Deployment considerations

Active Roles utilizes role-based delegation for assigning of administrative permissions. The benefits of this model are that a role can be created once and delegated to multiple groups of users that fit that role. If a change is needed, an update to the role will take effect for everyone. These roles are referred to as “Access Templates.”

When doing delegation with Active Roles, you should remember a few rules:

  • Active Roles administrators (Active Roles Admins) have full control throughout the system and cannot be denied access anywhere within Active Roles. Everyone else starts with nothing and permissions are added from the ground up.
  • Permissions are cumulative, an explicit deny takes precedence over an explicit allow. An explicit allow takes precedence over an inherited deny.
  • You should keep your permission model as simple as possible. Sometimes this means giving users all read/write permissions and denying the ability to write a few fields.
  • Do not use the default (built-in) Access Templates as they cannot be modified. Instead, copy those Access Templates and move them to a new container. This way all of the Access Templates you are using are stored within a particular structure.

There are three basic types of permissions that can be added to an Access Template:

  • First is object access. With this permission type, you can set permissions that affect an object as a whole. For instance: Move; List; Deprovision—all these are object permissions.
  • Second is object property access. These are used to control access to individual attributes of an object, such as an object’s description, samAccountName, or homeFolder. With this permission type, you can delegate granular rights over an object. However just because the rights that can be delegated can be granular does not mean that they should. For instance, if a helpdesk operator needs to be able to manage a large set of user properties, it makes more sense to delegate read/write for all properties as this is one permission entry instead of delegating read/write for every individual attribute since each attribute would need to have its own permission entry.
  • Third is child object creation/deletion. With this permission type, you can set permissions for creation or deletion of objects. For instance, to set up an Access Template that allows creation of users, you should add a permission entry that applies to the Organizational Unit and Container object classes, and contains a “Create child objects” permission for the User object class.

The following sections give a sample set of the permissions necessary for certain delegation scenarios:

Delegation of Organizational Unit administration

The following table lists a sample set of permission entries for a scenario of delegating administration of Organizational Units:

Table 9: Permission entries for delegating administration of Organizational Units

Object Class

Permission Type

Attribute or Permission

Domain

Object Access

Allow List

Domain

Object Property Access

Allow Read All Properties

Domain

Object Property Access

Allow Write LDAP Server (permission to change Operational Domain Controller)

Organizational Unit

Object Access

Allow List

Organizational Unit

Object Property Access

Allow Read All Properties

Organizational Unit

Child Object Creation/Deletion

Allow Create/Delete Users

User

Object Access

Allow List

User

Object Property Access

Allow Read/Write All Properties

User

Object Property Access

Deny Write Employee ID

This set of permission entries has several important characteristics:

  • It allows access to the Domain and the Organizational Unit object classes. This is because without access to the domain and the Organizational Units a delegated administrator cannot see the users beneath. This access should always include the List and Read All Properties permissions.
  • It gives a delegated administrator the ability to create and delete user objects. This permission applies to the Organizational Unit object class.
  • It gives a delegated administrator the ability to see (List) users and modify any property except Employee ID.

Delegation of group administration

The following table lists a sample set of permission entries for a scenario of delegating administration of groups:

Table 10: Permission entries for delegating administration of groups

Object Class

Permission Type

Attribute or Permission

Domain

Object Access

Allow List

Domain

Object Property Access

Allow Read All Properties

Domain

Object Property Access

Allow Write LDAP Server (permission to change Operational Domain Controller)

Organizational Unit

Object Access

Allow List

Organizational Unit

Object Property Access

Allow Read All Properties

Organizational Unit

Child Object Creation/Deletion

Allow Create/Delete Groups

Group

Object Access

Allow List

Group

Object Property Access

Allow Read All Properties

Group

Object Property Access

Allow Write Members

User

Object Access

Allow List

User

Object Property Access

Allow Read All Properties

This set of permission entries has several important characteristics:

  • It allows access to the Domain and the Organizational Unit object classes. This is because without access to the domain and the Organizational Units a delegated administrator cannot see the groups and users beneath. This access should always include the List and Read All Properties permissions.
  • It gives a delegated administrator the ability to create and delete group objects. This permission applies to the Organizational Unit object class.
  • It gives a delegated administrator the ability to see (List) groups, view any property of a group (Read All Properties), and add or remove members from a group (Write Members).
  • It gives a delegated administrator the ability to see (List) users and view any property of a user (Read All Properties). This is necessary for a delegated administrator to be able to add users to a group.

Delegation in a functional vs. hosted environment

For your delegation model to work correctly, you need to determine whether you have a functional or hosted environment.

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