New User web action
Overview
Use this action to create a new Active Directory user account in the Cayosoft AdministratorWeb Portal.
Web action settings
Action section
Setting name |
Description |
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Default OU for new object creation |
Specify default OU for new object creation. |
| More Options | |
Override Active Directory domains |
This setting is deprecated. To limit UPN suffixes when creating new objects in the Web Portal, please use Attribute policies . Leave this setting blank to use the default list of domain suffixes. |
Show Ticket input field |
Specify whether to display the Ticket field on the web form or not. By default, the ticket is not displayed. |
Show Comment input field |
Specify whether to display the Comment field on the web form or not. By default, the comment is displayed. |
| Account | |
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Options Label Options |
These settings are deprecated. Please use the settings in the Other Attributes section described below. |
Default UPN suffix |
The default UPN suffix is defined in the Default domain setting in the AD Users web query . |
Maximum SamAccountName length |
Cayosoft Administrator has 20 character limitation as this is Microsoft's recommendation for backward compatibility. For more details, please see this article: SAM-Account-Name attribute. This is not a hard limit and you can increase the maximum number of allowed characters using Attribute policies . |
Maximum UserPrincipalName prefix length |
Set the maximum UserPrincipleName prefix length. |
| Allow Exchange database selection | Set the setting to Yes to select a custom Exchange database when you run the web action. The setting applies exclusively to Microsoft Exchange Server (Exchange On-Premises). |
Run Add user to group post creation tasks |
Set this setting to Yes if you want to run New User | Add user to AD group(s) rule after new user creation. Otherwise set this setting to No. |
Show/hide password |
Select hide or show the password to a user when a user types it. |
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For information on these settings, please refer to the User Name Generation rules described in the Active Directory extension settings. |
Primary email prefix generation rule |
NOTE: The primary email prefix generation rule works only if the option to Show email prefix and suffix controls is set to Yes. in all other cases, an email will be generated automatically as UserPrincipalName (UPN) regardless of its generation rule. By Microsoft convention, UserPrincipalName should map to the user's email name. The point of the UPN is to consolidate the email and logon name spaces so that the user only needs to remember a single name. |
| Primary email suffix | Specify the email suffix to use as primary. |
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For information on these settings, please refer to the Other User Provisioning Settings description in the Active Directory extension settings. |
Set E-mail (mail) and add primary proxy address |
Specify when the mail attribute must be set:
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| Alternate Name Generation Rules | |
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For information on these settings, please refer to the Alternate Name Generation Rules description in the Active Directory extension settings. |
| Wizard Defaults | |
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You can specify the default values for these attributes that will be displayed on the New User creation wizard. Also to generate default values for these attributes, you could use Attribute policies . |
Default country/region |
For information on these settings, please refer to the Regional Settings description in the AD Users web query . |
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These settings enable/disable the standard Active Directory user object settings. |
Mailbox Type |
Select which button for mailbox type must be selected by default on the New User creation wizard:
For more information about mailbox types please see Hybrid users and remote mailboxes. |
| Hybrid License Options | |
Office 365 License options |
A hybrid user account is an Active Directory account that also has a corresponding Microsoft 365 account. Specify the way how the Microsoft 365 licenses will be assigned to a user if a matching Microsoft 365 account is going to be created:
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| Other Attributes | |
Other Attribute 1 - Other Attribute 20 |
If you use Active Directory extension attributes to store additional information for user accounts, you can select these attributes and map them to Other Attributes. For details please see this KB article: How to add custom attributes to New Object and Object Properties wizards in Web Portal. To set labels or default values for these attributes, please use Attribute policies . |
| Virtual Attributes | |
Virtual Attribute 1 - Virtual Attribute 25 |
Virtual Attributes allow extending the attribute list for users in Active Directory without extending the Active Directory schema. Select the virtual attributes from the list and map them to Virtual Attribute 1 - Virtual Attribute 25. For more details, please see the Virtual Attributes article. |
| DynamicAttribute Mapping | |
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If the user's properties depend on its organizational unit, then when creating a new user in Web Interface, it would be convenient to populate the default attribute values such as Department, Office, etc depending on the user's organizational unit. Dynamic Attribute Mapping solves this problem. For configuration, please see Dynamic attribute mapping in Web Portale article. |
| Custom Generation Tokens | |
| Custom Generation Tokens |
Custom generation tokens allow using the values of the attributes of the user who is running the action (initiator) in the Attribute policies that are applied to the creation of Active Directory and Microsoft 365 objects. Custom generation tokens should be set in corresponding Web Action configuration form. Example:
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After that InitiatorDepartment token can be used in Attribute Policy that is applied to this Web Action. For details see this KB article: How to create custom generation tokens in Attribute Policies |
Output section
This section defines the output format of this rule.
To get more information about this section, please see the Rule Output section article.
Change history
| Version | Notes |
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| 13.1 | The web action has been updated to feature the Account expires field in Web Portal. |
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