Active Directory Datasource

AD Users & Groups datasource

Rewritten from scratch using powershell remote.
Which has the advantage that no plugins, features ore roles are required.  All code is executed on the adserver instead.





The data source reads into a scheme called ‘ad’.

3 dictionaries :
- ad_user
- ad_group
- ad_usergroup (= group membership)

Host name: field should contain a comma-separated list of ad-servers (FQDN !).

Port: 1 enables debug mode with a little more logging.
User Name: and Password: are ignored.

NOTES:

• the domain name is ripped from the ad-server name (myserver.mydomain.local => mydomain.local)
• the domain name is used as "name" to search for wfa-credentials.  this means that you should have added credentials like "mydomain.local" => user+password
• If the user does not contain the domainname, it will be automatically prepended
  user => mydomain.local\user
• If you don't want to enable remote powershell on the ad server.  Perhaps you can use a jumphost instead and connect to the jumphost, which will need that AD features and roles to have the ad cmdlets.

EXTRAS:

• You can also copy paste the datasource code to your powershell ISE… you can easily test it in PowerShell ISE by changing $interactive=$true (check the comments in the code)  !
• Don't forget to use my debugging script first (or the command get-wfacredentials will be unknown)

Datasource DAR

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