Populating the AD Home Directory Field with IDM

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By Tim Edmonds

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Problem

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>

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