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Is it possible to link a workflow to a managed unit so that it only acts on objects in the managed unit?

james.huddy_64575
over 5 years ago

I have a manged unit that contains users that have not yet been synchronized to the O365 cloud. This based on a query of attributes 'vapso_associationstrguid_mailbox', 'vapso_cloudsyncstatus', 'vapso_cloudupdaterequired' & 'edsvaFirstEmailAddressUpdatedWorkday'. The purpose of the managed unit and Workflow/Script policy is to enable me to update the user's 'mail' attribute to the HR system once the user has been provisioned to the cloud or after a user request to change there email address.

I want to use a workflow (or other means) to inspect this managed unit and do the following:

1 For each user, set the 'edsvaFirstEmailAddress' attribute to the current value of the 'mail' attribute;

2 For each user, set the 'edsvaFirstEmailAddressUpdatedWorkday' to true. This is so that it then drops out of the managed unit.

I can mange the powershell script to carry out steps one and two above.

What I don't know is how I create a workflow and and then link it to the managed unit so that it only touches objects therein.

How do I do that please?

Or is it not possible to link a workflow to a managed unit?

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  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Workflows are not really linked to directory objects.  "Change workflows" are triggered by actions such as an attribute update.  "Automation workflows" (which is probably what you want to use here) are simply triggered on demand or by a schedule.

    A workflow really offers little value here.  In this case, IMO, it would probably be just as good to create a "Scheduled Task script" type script module and launch it using an AR scheduled task.  

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to JohnnyQuest

    Thanks for the tip Johnny. I'll try that scheduled task approach approach.

    The second part of the puzzle is to use the change in the 'edsvaFirstEmailAddress' attribute to trigger a script that generates a CSV and sends it to the HR system. Presumably that could be done with a 'change' workflow?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to james.huddy_64575

    Yes - that is correct.  So you would setup a change workflow that looks for a change to that property.  You can scope the "initiator conditions" so it only fires on changes to objects in specific locations and/or changes initiated by specific user(s).

    Within the workflow itself, you can embed a script activity that sends the information back to HR.

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  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to james.huddy_64575

    Yes - that is correct.  So you would setup a change workflow that looks for a change to that property.  You can scope the "initiator conditions" so it only fires on changes to objects in specific locations and/or changes initiated by specific user(s).

    Within the workflow itself, you can embed a script activity that sends the information back to HR.

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