Archive for June 2011

Courion Tip – SAP Message Servers

It appears that Courion doesn’t support SAP Message Servers

Posted June 29, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Courion Tip

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Courion Tip – avoiding creating accounts that already exist

I haven’t figured it out yet…. I think its working, but needs more testing Let me give you an example. Let’s assume the data in the identitymap is good. If the identitymap looks like this: 888944     danmurphy    Profile 888944     danmurphy    ActiveDirectory There is no point in a Courion process trying to create an Active Directory [...]

Posted June 29, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Courion Tip

IOBit Smart Defrag

Note to self, check out www.iobit.com smart defrag 2

Posted June 25, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Uncategorized

DropBox and SecretSync

Note to self, check out SecretSync … www.completelyprivatefiles.com

Posted June 25, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Uncategorized

Courion Tip – SAP connector / password

The password for the priviledged account that the Courion connector uses can only be 8 characters in length.

Posted June 25, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Courion Tip

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Courion Tip – Custom Macro names are case sensitive

Not too suprising here, but I asked Courion support if custom macro names are case sensitive (can I change the case without breaking something)? and they said that the macro names are case sensitive.

Posted June 25, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Courion Tip

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Courion Tip – Cannot add or even see SAP connector

Its in the documentation, but seems like it’s easy enough to forget. I was trying to add a connector for SAP, but couldn’t see the SAP connector in Connector Configuration Manager. Then I tried to Add it (File, add connector), and still couldn’t see it. Well, you won’t see it or be able to add [...]

Posted June 22, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Courion Tip

Courion Tip – Active Directory Group Membership

I have a table of department numbers, job titles, and active directory group memberships, let’s call it JobTitleAttribs.. Department Code Job Title Group Membership 10 Administrators Remote access, Backup Operators 10 Floor Worker NONE 10 Assistants Domain users Next, I created a custom macro to pull this into the courion workflow: Name: [SQL].Group.Membership.From.Title Return Type: [...]

Posted June 15, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Courion Tip

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Courion Tip – SSIS Active Directory and LastLogonTimeStamp

Very briefly, the last logon time stamp is something like the number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1601 (something to do with the Year 2000 Bug and that was ANSI’s solution to it) So, to get the last logon date (I didn’t bother with the hours minutes and seconds) I pull in the lastlogondatestamp as [...]

Posted June 6, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Courion Tip

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Courion Tip – Active Directory user home directory

Doesn’t seem to create the user home directory. Update – Doesn’t seem to work correctly with DFS shares. When I did it to a NON DFS share, worked fine.

Posted June 2, 2011 by mmdmurphy in Courion Tip

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