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Active Roles 8.1.1 - Administration Guide

Introduction 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
Provisioning Policy Objects Deprovisioning Policy Objects How Policy Objects work Policy Object management tasks Policy configuration tasks
Property Generation and Validation User Logon Name Generation Group Membership AutoProvisioning Exchange Mailbox AutoProvisioning AutoProvisioning in SaaS products OneDrive Provisioning Home Folder AutoProvisioning Script Execution Microsoft 365 and Azure Tenant Selection E-mail Alias Generation 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
Using rule-based and role-based tools for granular administration Workflows
Key workflow features and definitions About workflow processes Workflow processing overview Workflow activities overview Configuring a workflow
Creating a workflow definition for a workflow Configuring workflow start conditions Configuring workflow parameters Adding activities to a workflow Configure 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
Approval workflow Email-based approval Automation workflow Activity extensions
Temporal Group Memberships Group Family Dynamic groups Active Roles Reporting Management History Entitlement profile Recycle Bin AD LDS data management One Identity Starling Join and configuration through Active Roles Managing One Identity Starling Connect Configuring linked mailboxes with Exchange Resource Forest Management Configuring remote mailboxes for on-premises users Azure AD, Microsoft 365, and Exchange Online Management
Configuring Active Roles to manage Hybrid AD objects Managing Hybrid AD users
Creating a new Azure AD user with the Web Interface Viewing or updating the Azure AD user properties with the Web Interface Viewing or modifying the manager of a hybrid Azure user Disabling an Azure AD user Enabling an Azure AD user Deprovisioning of an Azure AD user Undo deprovisioning of an Azure AD user Adding an Azure AD user to a group Removing an Azure AD user from a group View the change history and user activity for an Azure AD user Deleting an Azure AD user with the Web Interface Creating a new hybrid Azure user with the Active Roles Web Interface Converting an on-premises user with an Exchange mailbox to a hybrid Azure user Licensing a hybrid Azure user for an Exchange Online mailbox Viewing or modifying the Exchange Online properties of a hybrid Azure user Creating a new Azure AD user with Management Shell Updating the Azure AD user properties with the Management Shell Viewing the Azure AD user properties with the Management Shell Delete an Azure AD user with the Management Shell Assigning Microsoft 365 licenses to new hybrid users Assigning Microsoft 365 licenses to existing hybrid users Modifying or removing Microsoft 365 licenses assigned to hybrid users Updating Microsoft 365 licenses display names
Unified provisioning policy for Azure M365 Tenant Selection, Microsoft 365 License Selection, Microsoft 365 Roles Selection, and OneDrive provisioning Microsoft 365 roles management for hybrid environment users Managing Microsoft 365 contacts Managing Hybrid AD groups Managing Microsoft 365 Groups Managing cloud-only distribution groups Managing cloud-only dynamic distribution 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 cloud-only shared mailboxes
Modern Authentication Managing the configuration of Active Roles
Connecting to the Administration Service 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 Using regular expressions Administrative Template Communication ports Active Roles and supported Azure environments Integrating Active Roles with other products and services Active Roles Language Pack Active Roles Diagnostic Tools Active Roles Add-on Manager

Monitoring replication

Active Roles makes it possible to monitor the status of replication partners. Monitoring allows you to determine whether Active Roles replication is working efficiently and correctly.

To view the status of a replication partner via the Active Roles Console

  1. Connect to any Administration Service within the replication group.

  2. Open the Properties dialog for the replication partner and navigate to the Replication Status tab.

For more information on how to connect to the Administration Service, see Connecting to the Administration Service.

Once connected to the Administration Service, perform the following steps to open the Properties dialog for a replication partner.

To open the Properties dialog for a replication partner

  1. In the Console tree, expand Configuration > Server Configuration, and click Configuration Databases.

  2. In the Details pane, right-click the replication partner, and click Properties.

The Replication Status tab in the Properties dialog provides information about the last replication action of the partner and indicates whether the action completed successfully, failed, or is in progress.

If there are any replication failures in Active Roles, the Active Roles Console displays next to Server Configuration and Configuration Databases containers in the Console tree. This allows you to detect a replication failure without examining individual databases.

For more information on how to monitor the health of Active Roles replication, refer to Active Roles Replication: Best Practices and Troubleshooting.

Always On Availability Groups

To improve the availability of the Active Roles Administration Service, you can use Always On Availability Groups introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With Always On Availability Groups, SQL Server provides a failover environment known as an availability group for a set of availability databases that fail over together from one SQL Server instance to another. You can add the Active Roles database to an availability group, and have the Administration Service automatically reconnect to the database when the availability group fails over to another SQL Server instance.

An availability group defines a set of availability replicas to host copies of each availability database. Each availability group has at least two availability replicas: a primary and a secondary replica.

The primary replica hosts the read-write copy of each availability database held in the availability group. A secondary replica hosts a read-only copy of each availability database, and serves as a potential failover target for the availability group. During a failover, a secondary replica transitions to the primary role, becoming the new primary replica. The new primary replica brings its databases online as the primary databases for read-write access.

Adding the Active Roles database to an availability group ensures the uninterrupted operation of the Active Roles Administration Service. If a server or software failure occurs on the SQL Server side, the availability group can instantly switch the database to a secondary replica, enabling the Administration Service to reconnect seamlessly to the database in the new location.

For more information about Always On Availability Groups, see AlwaysOn Availability Groups (SQL Server) in the Microsoft SQL documentation.

Configuring AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Active Roles

If you have the Active Roles Administration Service installed, you can configure it to use a database belonging to an Always On availability group (also called an availability database). When configuring Active Roles, you must store the Management History data and Configuration data in separate databases. Each of the two databases (or both) can belong to an availability group.

NOTE: Active Roles does not support the replication of availability databases. Therefore, if the Administration Service is configured to use an availability database (either for the Management History Database or for the Configuration Database), then the data of that database cannot be replicated.

For more information on how to install and configure the Administration Service, see the Active Roles Quick Start Guide.

By using the availability group listener, the Administration Service can connect to the current primary replica of the availability group that holds the Active Roles database without knowing the name of the physical instance of the SQL Server that hosts the primary replica. The listener also enables support for failover redirection. This means that in case of a failover, the listener automatically redirects the Administration Service connection to the new primary replica.

Prerequisites

  • The Active Roles database is added to an Always On availability group on the SQL Server.

    For instructions on how to configure an availability group, and how to add a database to an availability group, see Getting Started with Always On Availability Groups (SQL Server) in the Microsoft SQL documentation.

  • Active Roles replication is not configured for the Configuration data and the Management History data.

To configure the Active Roles Administration Service to connect to the database via the availability group listener

  1. Start the Active Roles Configuration Center on the computer running the Administration Service, or connect the Active Roles Configuration Center to that computer.

  2. On the Active Roles Configuration Center Dashboard, in Administration Service, click Manage Settings.

    The Connection to Database page opens.

  3. To modify the database connection of the Administration Service, in Connection to Database > Active Roles databases, click Change.

  4. If either or both of the databases belong to an availability group in your Active Roles environment, specify the availability group listener. Otherwise, do not change the value of SQL Server.

    1. If the Configuration database belongs to an availability group, enter the DNS host name and, optionally, the TCP port of the listener of that availability group in Connection to Database > SQL Server.

    2. If the Management History database belongs to an availability group, enter the DNS host name and, optionally, the TCP port of the listener of that availability group in Connection to Management History Database > SQL Server.

    The value of SQL Server must be identical to the DNS host name and, optionally, the TCP port of the listener of the availability group to which the database belongs.

    Example: Specifying the availability group listener in the SQL Server

    If the DNS host name of the listener is AGListener and the TCP port used by this listener is 1234, the value is AGListener,1234. You can omit the port number in case of the default port, 1433.

  5. Click Next.

  6. To complete the configuration, follow the instructions of the wizard.

Using database mirroring

Active Roles can use the Microsoft SQL Server database mirroring technology to improve the availability of the Administration Service. Database mirroring provides a standby database server that supports failover. Once the current database server fails, the Administration Service can recover quickly by automatically reconnecting to the standby server.

Database mirroring increases database availability by supporting rapid failover. This technology can be used to maintain two copies of a single Active Roles database on different server instances of SQL Server Database Engine. One server instance serves the database to the Administration Service; this instance is referred to as the Principal server. The other instance acts as a standby server; this instance is referred to as the Mirror server.

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