(Legacy) How to configure suspend policy when user sAMAccountName is more than 20 characters

Applies to: Cayosoft Suspend 1.2.3.x or later.

Summary: This article describes how to configure suspend policy when user sAMAccountName is more than 20 characters.

ID: KB20190325-1

---

Configuration of suspend policy

1. Launch Active Directory Users and Computers

2. Right-click the user you wish to suspend and choose Suspend

3. Navigate to Update Attributes section

4. Click Add

5. On Attribute Modification form click Browse and select sAMAccountName attribute

6. Select Set to specified value

7. Set z-$date("MMdd")$object.AttributeValue(sAMAccountName,CharactersNum,0) - when user is suspended, this expression will modify the sAMAccountName attribute:

   1. "z-" prefix, any string value - optional

   2. $date("MMdd") - month and date of suspend operation, optional 

   3. CharactersNum - the number of characters taken from the sAMAccountName attribute

   4. 0 - characters are taken from the beginning of sAMAccountName attribute; 1 - characters taken from the end of sAMAccountName attribute.

Example: User sAMAccountName is Long.SamAccountName.

When z-$date("MMdd")$object.AttributeValue(sAMAccountName,14,0) expression is applied, new sAMAccountName is z-0325Long.SamAccoun.