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Active Roles 7.5.3 - 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

Enabling and disabling claim types

Windows claim types have two states: disabled and enabled. Disabled claim types are valid claim types, but are unavailable for use in production. Claims of disabled claim types are not issued by domain controllers and disabled claim types are filtered from view in the access rule condition builder. A claim type becomes available for production use once you enable it. Active Roles creates enabled claim types, and allows you to disable and enable claim types as needed.

To disable an enabled claim type

  • Right-click the claim type object and click Disable.

To enable a disabled claim type

  • Right-click the claim type object and click Enable.

Populating claim source attributes

Creating a claim type object makes the Active Directory forest aware of the claim type. However, claim type objects do not provide information held in the actual claims. When issuing claims, domain controllers retrieve that information from user and computer objects. Hence, in addition to claim type objects, user and computer objects must contain the information necessary for domain controllers to issue claims.

Attribute-based claim types define the attributes from which to source the claims. These are attributes of user and computer objects. Each claim type object specifies a certain attribute that the domain controller retrieves when creating and issuing claims of that type. During authentication of a user, the claim-aware domain controller reads all enabled claim types from the user’s Active Directory forest, and maps them to the attributes of the authenticating user or computer. Then, the domain controller retrieves information from the mapped attributes, and issues claims containing that information.

As domain controllers do not issue blank claims, you may encounter a situation where you have created a valid claim type but the domain controller does not issue the claim during authentication. This is because a claim type object merely maps claims to a certain attribute, directing the domain controller to issue claims based on the information present in that attribute. If the attribute of the authenticating user or computer does not contain information, the domain controller does not issue the claim.

Therefore, it is important that claim source attributes contain information. Additionally, as authorization decisions depend upon information found in claims, claim source attributes must contain valid information. Incorrect attribute information can lead to unexpected access to data using claims-based authorization.

To ensure that claim source attributes contain valid information, you could periodically inspect and, if needed, set or correct the properties of users and computers by using the Active Roles console or Web Interface. However, it would be more practical to leverage property generation and validation policies provided by Active Roles. You can use policies to:

  • Auto-generate the appropriate values for user and computer properties upon creation of user and computer objects
  • Prevent invalid values from being assigned to user and computer properties, by applying validation rules or creating immutable lists of suggested values

Property generation and validation policies allow you to specify, and enforce, conditions that the property values must meet, and determine default property values. For further information, see Property Generation and Validation in the Active Roles Administration Guide.

Managing and applying Access Rules

Access Rules are used in Active Roles to specify conditions for authorizing user access to securable objects (target objects) that involve user groups, user claims, device groups, device claims, and target object properties. When you apply an Access Template, you can specify an Access Rule to determine the conditions that must be satisfied for the permissions resulting from the Access Template to take effect.

When configuring an Access Rule, you use Conditional expression editor to build a conditional expression for that Access Rule. Conditional expressions are logical expressions that provide a True or False result. Once an Access Rule has been configured, you can apply the Access Rule to an Access Template link (see Applying an Access Rule), which causes the link to be dynamically enabled or disabled depending upon the evaluation result of the Access Rule’s conditional expression during permission check. If the expression evaluates to True, the link is enabled and permission check considers the Access Template permission settings; otherwise, the link is disabled and the Access Template permission settings are disregarded.

Conditional expression editor

The Access Rule management pages provide a built-in editor for configuring conditional expressions. Each Access Rule holds a certain conditional expression that evaluates during permission check. A conditional expression is composed of conditions combined using AND/OR logic. Each condition is a certain statement that specifies criteria allowing permission check to determine whether to apply a given Access Template.

When you configure a conditional expression, you need to add at least one condition, but you are not limited in the number of conditions that you can add. You can add, delete, and group conditions using various operators. It is possible to nest condition groups within other condition groups to achieve the results that you want.

A condition group contains one or more conditions connected by the same logical operator. By grouping conditions, you specify that those conditions should be evaluated as a single unit. The effect is the same as if you put parentheses around an expression in a mathematical equation or logic statement.

By default, a single condition group is created when you add a condition. You can create additional condition groups to group a set of conditions and nest grouped conditions within other condition groups.

In a condition group, conditions are connected using the AND or OR logical operator:

  • AND group evaluates to TRUE if all conditions in the group are TRUE.
  • OR group evaluates to TRUE if any condition in the group is TRUE.

By default, AND is the logical operator between the conditions in a condition group. It is possible to change the logical operator by converting the condition group to a different group type.

When you add a condition, the conditional expression editor first prompts you to specify what you want the condition to evaluate. The following options are available:

  • Device claim  Evaluate a computer claim, or groups the computer account is a member of. You can choose one of the existing computer claim types or, to evaluate groups, you can select the Group item in the claim type list provided by the condition builder.
  • Target object property  Evaluate a certain property of the object to which the authorizing user requests access. You can select the desired property from a list provided by the condition builder.
  • User claim  Evaluate a user claim, or groups the user account is a member of. You can select one of the existing user claim types or, to evaluate groups, you can select the Group item in the claim type list provided by the condition builder.

Once you have specified what you want the condition to evaluate, you can choose a comparison operator and specify a comparison value. The comparison operator determines the operation of comparing the claim, group membership, or property with the comparison value you specified, and causes the condition to evaluate to TRUE or FALSE depending on the outcome of that operation.

The following comparison operators are available:

  • equals  The condition evaluates to True if the comparison value evaluates to the exact value of the claim or property; otherwise, the condition evaluates to False.
  • does not equal  The condition evaluates to False if the comparison value evaluates to the exact value of the claim or property; otherwise, the condition evaluates to True.
  • member of any  The condition evaluates to True if the comparison value lists any of the groups the user (or computer) is a member of. If the user (or computer) is not a member of any of the groups listed in the comparison value, the condition evaluates to False.
  • member of each  The condition evaluates to True if the comparison value lists only the groups the user (or computer) is a member of. If the user (or computer) is not a member of each group listed in the comparison value, the condition evaluates to False.
  • not member of any  The condition evaluates to False if the comparison value lists any of the groups the user (or computer) is a member of. If the user (or computer) is not a member of any of the groups listed in the comparison value, the condition evaluates to True.
  • not member of each  The condition evaluates to False if the comparison value lists only the groups the user (or computer) is a member of. If the user (or computer) is not a member of each group listed in the comparison value, the condition evaluates to True.

You can choose from the following options to specify a comparison value:

  • Device claim  The comparison value is the value of a certain computer claim. You can select one of the existing computer claim types from the claim type list provided by the condition builder.
  • Target object property  The comparison value is the value of a certain property of the object to which the authorizing user requests access. You can select the desired property from a list provided by the condition builder.
  • User claim  The comparison value is the value of a certain user claim. You can select one of the existing user claim types from the claim type list provided by the condition builder.
  • Value  Depending on what the condition is intended to evaluate, this option allows you to specify a particular text string, integer, Boolean value (True or False), or a list of groups. In case of a claim type that provides a list of suggested values, the condition builder prompts you to select a value from the list.
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