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AD Users | Mail-Enable User rule

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Rule description

This rule queries the specified Active Directory scope and adds an external email address to each Active Directory user. 

 

When to use this rule

Use this rule when you need to perform bulk creation of mail-enabled Active Directory users.

 

Rule Settings

Query Section

Setting name Description

General Settings

  
Limit scope to this Domain or OU

This setting defines the search query scope.

To improve query performance, limit the scope to specific OU.

Important: To test rule configuration, limit the rule scope to an OU that contains test accounts or objects.
Query criteria Query criteria are sent to the target platform with other query parameters to reduce the number of returned objects and may improve query performance.

Other Query Settings

  

Properties to Display

To display additional properties for each object found by the query, add those properties to the list. 

System properties

List of properties required for this rule to be executed correctly.

Filter

To hide unwanted data based on criteria, not supported by the target system in the query criteria, set the filtering conditions here.

Example: filter by the found object Distinguished Name.

Tip: For optimal performance, use the Query criteria above to filter objects whenever possible.

Sort by

Sort result objects list.

Initialization script

Usually, rules use query criteria to limit the query search scope. It improves the performance of the executed rule.

Due to PowerShell limitations, it is not possible to use calculated expressions in query criteria. That is the point where the initialization script can help. You can initialize a global variable in this setting and then use it in query criteria.

Important: To use a variable, declared in the initialization script, in the query scope, it must be global: $global:<variable name>. 

 

Action Section

Setting name Description
Alias generation rule
  1. Do not set alias explicitly.
  2. Use mail prefix.
  3. Use UPN prefix.
Note: By default, Exchange will set the mailnickname (alias) attribute explicitly to the UPN of the user. The general recommendation is to leave this behavior with the 'Do not set alias explicitly' setting.
External email address Specify an external email address. By default, mail property is used.
Display name

Specify display name.

  1. Do not change (default)
  2. FirstName space LastName
  3. FirstName Initials LastName
  4. LastName, FirstName
  5. FirstName FirstInitial. LastName

 

Output Section

This section defines the output format of this rule.

To get more information about this section, please see the Output section article.

 

Enforce/Schedule section

This section defines the schedule for how often to run the rule.

To get more information about this section, please see the Enforce/Schedule section article. 

 

 Change History

Version Notes
10.1.3 The rule is introduced in the product. 

 

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