Re: Using AD to control application group membership

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I am not sure I understand what you mean. But if you want AD to automatically put users into groups for you, it won't. You will need to write a script or tool that does the group population.

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fiordialiso wrote:
I would like some advice on how to use AD to control membership of groups in a non-MS selfdeveloped application.

Currently we use the AD to align users with in our application. Thereafter we enroll the mass of users to the appropiate application groups from the applications usermanagement module. This takes a lot of time and management.

I want to automate the enrolling of AD Users into the different application groups directly from AD by adding to the AD Schema/AD Attributes, so that group membership is controlled by the AD. We are talking non-standard AD groups that allready exist in our self-developed application.

Our developers does not have much faith in this, so I would like some opinions/advice on how to let the AD structure manage all of this!

My feeling is that, there must be a lot of applications, that uses the AD to fill out the user/group structure in a non-MS application!

PS I dont know if this should have been posted under another subject
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