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Problem

A Forum reader recently asked:

"How can we populate the AD home directory field using IDM? Is it even possible?"

And here's the response from Tim Edmonds ...

Solution

Set the AD Attributes as below:

• homeDrive - Drive to which Home Directory will be mapped
• homeDirectory - URL of Home Directory, including the user portion

Here's some sample XML that uses a GCV to set the specifics of the homeDirectory. It also uses CN for a directory name (sorry if it word-wraps and gets a bit confusing ...)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE policy PUBLIC 
"policy-builder-dtd" 
"C:\Program 
Files\Novell\Designer\eclipse\plugins\
com.novell.designer.idm.policybuilder_2.0.0.200705161501\DTD\dirxmlscript.dtd"><policy>
  <rule>
    <description>Create Home Directory</description>
    <comment xml:space="preserve">Create the Home Directory for the user 
in AD</comment>
    <conditions>
      <and>
        <if-op-attr name="CN" op="available"/>
      </and>
    </conditions>
    <actions>
      <do-set-dest-attr-value class-name="User" name="homeDrive">
        <arg-value type="string">
          <token-text xml:space="preserve">H:</token-text>
        </arg-value>
      </do-set-dest-attr-value>
      <do-set-dest-attr-value class-name="User" name="homeDirectory">
        <arg-value type="string">
          <token-global-variable 
name="af_gcv_Active_Directory_Home_Directory_Location"/>
          <token-attr name="CN"/>
        </arg-value>
      </do-set-dest-attr-value>
    </actions>
  </rule>
</policy>