How To Inventory AD Groups with Users and Assigning APP and Licenses

[diegocarvejani]

Hello,

We have onPrem FNMS 2019 R2. We need to know if is possible inventory AD Groups + Users and assign to an Application and start assigning licenses to Active Directory Groups to support the company's drive to use non-persistent VDI in lieu of standard workstations. How can i do it? Do you have any Step by step? Userguide?

[kclausen]

You will need to:

1) Create a Business Adapter and connect to Active Directory using LDAP
2) Create the LDAP query to find all of the User Accounts assigned to a specific AD Group Name
3) Allocate that users to the appropriate Software License within FlexNet Manager

[ChrisG]

As part of an approach to handle this scenario, consider the following post which discusses a PowerShell script which can be used to extract group membership information from Active Directory into a CSV file: AD group member query business adapter. This type of data can then subsequently be processed and imported by a business adapter.

[adrian_ritz1]

You can do it directly from beacon server, please check following  link:

https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Forum/AD-group-member-query-business-adapter/td-p/187081

I implemented this to a customer for more than 10 license models, and is working fine.

[mfranz · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This is currently no out of the box feature, but can be customized with some SQL, PowerShell and a Business Import.

Please consider voting for this idea: https://flexerasfdc.ideas.aha.io/ideas/FNMS-I-29

Best regards,

Markward