UMRA and provisioning - linking Active Directory with other information systems |
| Active Directory has always been some kind of duplicate personnel database. All users are present in Active Directory, but as a rule they are primarily managed outside Active Directory in a personnel database. From an information technological point of view this is incorrect, since it results in duplicate storage. A link between the primary personnel database and Active Directory would be very helpful and UMRA Automation offers this possibility. |
| As soon as you have gained experience with mass imports and forms, it is quite likely that you want to automate tasks even further. An information system containing personnel data may create a .CSV file every day which you want to be processed automatically to update Active Directory. This can be realized using the UMRAConsole Command Line interface. A project can be executed as a CMD batch file and scheduled in the Windows task scheduler. |
| Furthermore, every application supporting the component object model (COM), such as IIS and Office, can be integrated with UMRA. The integration is established using the umracom.dll which is part of the AUTOMATION module. Finally, it is also possible to write scripts which are executed via the UMRA service in the network using UMRACMD.EXE. Software developers can thus fully integrate the UMRA functionality with their own environment, without having to define this functionality themselves. |
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