AD Users License Optimization rule

Limit scope to this domain or OU

This setting defines the search query scope.

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

Query criteria

Query criteria are sent with the query and may improve query performance.

Optimization model

Select the optimization model for the optimization scenario calculation.

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 query results

To hide unwanted data based on criteria, not supported by Active Directory query, set the filtering conditions here.

Example: filter by the found object Distinguished Name.

Sort by

Sort result object 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 initialization script can help. You can initialize a global variable in this setting and then use it in query criteria. 

Example: Update AD users, created in the last ten days.

1. Add this initialization script:

{$global:DatePeriod = (Get-Date).AddDays(-10)}

2. Use $DatePeriod variable in query criteria builder: