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aburleson
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Hello All,

I was wondering if it's possible to import all users from our Active Directory OU into webFOCUS. I am able to extract all usernames from the Active Directory using c# and the .net framework. Our webFOCUS system uses Active Directory authentication and we have hundreds of users that need to be added. We are not able to access the SQL tables directly. Thanks in advance for any help.

Adam
 
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GamP
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Adam,
Last time I checked (3 years ago) this was not possible to do directly in WebFOCUS. Since the requirement was there, I had the systems administrator prepare a download of the AD for me in Access. This access datafile is of course readable by the reporting server.
But since you already can extract the userlist using c#, why don't you use that method to collect your usernames and offer them to webfocus for further processing?


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dhagen
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You could do all of this in WebFOCUS.

First: talk to your IBI rep to see if he/she could allow you to use the LDAP adapter and the WebFOCUS Web service WSDL creation process. Or at least rent them for a week or two.

Second: Use the LDAP adapter to gen a list of users, emails, etc, and any role (memberOf) info that will allow you to determine the users MRE Role and Group privileges, and hold the results in a flat file.

Third: Map the WSDLs back to WebFOCUS as tables. You will need 4 of them: MRECreateUser, MREAddGrouptoUser, MRESetUserRole, MRESetUserFlags.

Forth: Build a fex that will iterate through the flat file and run a Table request for each of the above web services using the row values as where statements.

A buddy of mine just did the same thing (minus the LDAP extract). It took less then a day to build and run to completion.


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