Identity Management

General Information

Create or Delete Organizational Units

Introduction

Follow this procedure if you wish to create or delete an organizational unit within your delegated manual Enterprise Groups area.  Organizational units are a useful way to separate different kinds of groups.  Placing groups into different organizational units only serves to help organize collections of groups; it does not affect group membership or the behavior of the group in any way.

Connect to Admin Server

Connect to the appropriate Admin server via RDP (Remote Desktop).

  • Server:  p-admin-ad-2.ad.calpoly.edu
    • For DEV, use: d-its-admin-01.ad-dev.calpoly.edu
    • For TST, use: t-its-admin01.ad-tst.calpoly.edu
    • For PRD, use p-admin-ad-2.ad.calpoly.edu
  • Select "Use another account"
  • Enter your username, including the CALPOLY\ prefix: CALPOLY\jmustang
  • Enter your password and click OK.

Launch Active Directory Administrative Center

Once connected to the Admin server, you must start the Active Directory Administrative Center application.

Windows users: Be sure you are in full screen on your primary monitor, otherwise the Windows Logo Key  will not be sent to the remote desktop.

  • Press the Windows Logo Key  , or, for Mac users, the Command key. This will open the Start pane of Windows.
  • Start typing "active"
  • Find and click on the Active Directory Administrative Center application.

Once the Active Directory Administrative Center is running, you can "Pin" it to the task bar. Next time, you can just click on this task bar icon.

Navigate to your delegated Groups OU

  • Switch to Tree View in the navigation pane.
  • Navigate to the Groups/Manual OU.
  • Navigate to the delegated Groups OU with the information given to you by the Identity Management or Portal team.
    • Portal groups are under /Manual/IS/Portal/uPortal (these groups generally grant access for users to Portlets)
    • Workflow groups are under /Manual/IS/Portal/Workflow (these groups generally grant access for users to Workflows)
       

Create an Organizational Unit

Follow this procedure only if you wish to create a new Organizational Unit.  If you wish to delete, skip to the next section.

  • Right click on your OU in the navigation pane, and select New->Organizational Unit.
  • Enter a Name for the OU and click OK.

Delete an Organizational Unit

Follow this procedure only if you wish to delete an Organizational Unit.

  • Select the Organizational Unit and select Properties in the Tasks pane on the right.
  • Uncheck the "Protect from accidental deletion" check box and click OK.
  • Select Delete in the Tasks pane on the right.
  • Confirm deletion of the Organizational Unit.

If you get the following error message, you probably forgot to uncheck the "Protect from accidental deletion" check box.

 

Disconnect from Admin Server

When you have completed your work you can disconnect from the Admin Server.

  • Press the keyboard combination <Ctrl> <Esc> at the same time to get to the Start pane.
  • In the upper right corner, click on your name and then click on Sign out.

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