Provisioning Random sAMAccountName Value

Sometimes the customer requirements are very interesting, such as generating random attribute values. In this case I will show you how midPoint can generate random sAMAccountName attribute value for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) account provisioning. Although you can let the Active Directory to generate sAMAccountName just by omitting any value when creating a new account, Read more about Provisioning Random sAMAccountName Value[…]

Storing Extended Attributes in System Configuration

Customers usually have different deployment environments such as production, testing and development. The names and number of the environments may vary of course. If you want to maintain the configuration in XML files for revision control, you will most probably need to maintain multiple copies of (almost) the same configuration, mappings etc. Can we do Read more about Storing Extended Attributes in System Configuration[…]

Unique E-mail Address Value

Some time ago we’ve discussed how to generate e-mail address for resource target attribute. But almost everytime you would need to store user’s e-mail address in midPoint to push it anywhere you need. So we need to enter the value in midPoint (we have fancy “emailAddress” attribute handy) and let the resource schema handling mappings Read more about Unique E-mail Address Value[…]

Expression Evolution In Real Life

When customizing midPoint for deployment, you will need expressions sooner or later. In this post, I would like to present one possible way of the email expression evolution. Let’s suppose that our target system has an account attribute “InternetAddress” to store user’s e-mail address. Goal generate e-mail address based on user’s givenName and familyName attributes. Read more about Expression Evolution In Real Life[…]