Inside Visual Scripting

Introduction

User Management Resource Administrator
doesn't require any knowledge of scripting
languages such as VBScript or Perl, nor will
you ever have to write a single line of code
when using it. We have essentially created
actions involved in user resource management
such as building blocks, where you would normally
see
a seperate
function
or module
inside a script.

Traditional Script Component vs. Visual Script Action

Traditional scripting languages such as
VBScript or Perl are all centered around
the same basic principles, and are pretty
much structured like the following example:

Traditional Script

-------- Create user --------

Initialize objects and variables

Connect to Active Directory

Connect to specific Organizational Unit

Set the container context in which the user account will be created

Create the user account with username

-------- End of script -------

Visual Script Action

In User Management Resource Administrator,
this script is represented by a single action,
and is available as extension to a project. This action,
called Create User (AD), contains properties
which define the domain and organizational
unit level. The advantage is that it also contains
automated error handling and logging without
any configuration, and that it contains algorithms
to generate usernames and passwords. This action
is also capable of exporting and printing its
information. See below for more actions available
in User Management Resource Administrator:

Visual Scripting - What does it look like?

1. Input window - This
   window contains the CSV input. Right-click
   inside this window to load the CSV import
   wizard. You can also use live input from
   your network, by using the Network
   bar.
   When expanding the Active Directory tree,
   you can directly load users from a OU into
   the input window. The input window will
   then show only the identifier attributes
   for user accounts, such as full name, description
   and Object Distinguished Name.


2. Script window - Contains
   the script actions to be executed for each
   line of the input. As you may notice, this
   window contains 10 script actions including
   a Create user (AD), Set group
   memberships (AD) and Create directory.
   The other actions are variable definitions,
   which specify information which is not included
   in the input, such as domain name and home
   server.


3. Script properties window -
   The property configuration for a script
   action. Each script action has properties,
   or parameters, to specify the data needed
   for proper execution. For instance, when
   creating a home directory, you need to tell
   the Create directory action which home sever
   and root share to use.


4. Actions bar - Drag-and-drop
   actions from this bar to the script window
   to add actions.

CSV file example

Line
1: FirstName,LastName,Office,JobDescription

Line 2: John,Addams,New York,Marketing Assistant
The above CSV file is perfectly suited to
create a complete user account. The first and
last name are directly assigned to the Active
Directory givenName and surName attributes.
Additionally they are used to generate a unique
username and fullname, respectivily used for
the sAMAccountName, UPN prefix, displayName and commonName attributes.
Also, based on the office column containing "New
York", User Management Resource Administrator
can assign a specific home server, Organizational
Unit, Exchange server and more. Using the JobDescription
column, you can assign the user to one or more
security or distribution groups depending on
the content. Note that all missing pieces of
the puzzle, such as the domain, home server
name, OU location and group names can be defined
in the project script as global variables.

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