Schedule manager change in AD

Question

Hello all,

We have a situation where HR would like to schedule Title/Dept/Manager changes. I believe I have figured out the title/dept scheduling by using custom date and text to compare to the current and replace when the cust date is later than the current date. What I'm having trouble with is scheduling manager changes. It would be great and easy if each dept had only one manager (if this dept then this manager), but unfortunately every dept has multiple managers. Anyone have any advice on how to make something like this work? Is it even possible? I have some powershell knowledge, but not a veteran by any means.

Thanks,

Brian

Answer 1

Hello Brian,

Sorry for the confusion, but we are not sure what exactly you mean by multiple managers. The Manager property is single-valued. As such, you can preserve the DN f the manager in a custom command and then set it when time comes in a scheduled task like you did for title and department.

Custom command Scheduled task If that does not work for you, please, describe the desired behaviour in all the possible details with live examples.

Comments

Hi, thanks for the quick reply. Hopefully this will explain a little better. Currently we have a page created for changing the job title, the department, and manager. The field for job title selection is a text input box that stores the value directly to Job Title attribute. The selection for department is a drop down menu with a specific set of options to choose from that I have set in the User Pattern properties. The manager selection is a search/selection of all users in a specific OU (see first screenshot). This all works great for changing any/all of those properties immediately. I would like to be able to add a date selection box, so if that date is in the future, it will make the changes accordingly. I'm guessing this is done with a scheduled task. What I'm having trouble with is how to select the manager and schedule that change. This is the current setup where we select all the appropriate items and it immediately makes the changes:

Here is how I have setup the department change schedule as well as the title change schedule:

I'm just not seeing a way to be able to pick a new manager from the AD/OU search/selection and store that for scheduling. Hopefully that makes a little more sense. And maybe I'm going about this in the wrong way.

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Hello,

As we mentioned in the previous post, you need to use a custom command with two parameters:

• AD object picker for selecting the new manager
• Date/time picker for selecting the date when to apply the new manager

A scheduled task cannot be used to make user entries. We provided a screenshot of the resulting custom command and scheduled task in the above reply. For details on creating custom commands, have a look at the following tutorial (parameter usage is described on step 4): https://www.adaxes.com/tutorials_ActiveDirectoryManagement_CreateCustomCommand.htm.