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Product What is ActiveADAPTER? What will
ActiveADAPTER add to what I see in
BizTalk Server? What is an
example of how and why you might use
ActiveADAPTER? What versions
of Microsoft BizTalk Server does
ActiveADAPTER support?
Can we purchase components of the
ActiveADAPTER BizTalk Accelerator
separately? Is there a
version of ActiveADAPTER for BizTalk
2006? We are
interested in purchasing ActiveADAPTER
for use by government or government
contractors. What are the export
conditions for ActiveADAPTER?
Technical Which
properties of Active Directory objects
can ActiveADAPTER modify? Can
ActiveADAPTER help me retrieve
information from Active Directory? Does ActiveADAPTER supply the schemas I
will need?
Can the Active Directory
Receive Adapter help me build
an orchestration that listens for
changes to Active Directory? Can I use
ActiveADAPTER components in multiple
BizTalk applications? What version of
the .NET framework does ActiveADAPTER
require? Can I use the
ActiveADAPTER Send Adapter with dynamic
ports? What
transactional strategy does the
ActiveADAPTER Send Adapter use? Will the
ActiveADAPTER Send Adapter return error
information back to my orchestration?
Product FAQ
ActiveADAPTER
is a set of BizTalk
adapters for working with
Active Directory from BizTalk Server.
It consists of:
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A BizTalk Send
Adapter that you can use to:
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Create,
move and delete Active Directory
objects
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Change
object properties such as email
addresses, office locations,
home folder locations...
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Set
user passwords
and
add objects to security groups
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A BizTalk
Receive Adapter that you can use to
query Active Directory and receive
the results in an XML message into
BizTalk Server
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The input and
output schemas for all ActiveADAPTER
operations
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Sample
orchestrations and example XML input
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Complete
documentation
After installing ActiveADAPTER you will
see a new
transport type option when configuring a send
port or receive
location.
With BizTalk send ports, you can create, delete, move,
and modify Active Directory objects.
With BizTalk receive locations, you can
draw XML messages into BizTalk
containing
Active Directory
query results.
On
your Programs menu you will also have an ActiveADAPTER program group containing
shortcuts to documentation, sample orchestrations
and schemas to get you
developing your solutions quickly.
Here is an example of
one of dozens of high ROI BizTalk
applications you can build with ActiveADAPTER.
Suppose
Jane
is a new hire
in your organization.
At the end of the
hiring process, HR notify IT operations
of Jane's start date. A member
of IT Operations (with no Active
Directory knowledge) goes to your
Service Desk system, raises a new
ticket, and completes a simple form
about Jane's role in your organisation.
From
the information entered, the Service
Desk system creates an xml file and
submits it to BizTalk. BizTalk uses the
information in the message and
ActiveADAPTER to:
-
create Jane's
Active Directory account
-
synchronize
Jane's Active Directory telephone
numbers, office location, and
Manager's name from the information
in HR system entered during the
recruitment process
-
set a first-use password for
Jane and specify that it must be
changed on first logon
-
grant Jane access
to the resources she will need by
placing her in a number of security
groups
On Jane's first day BizTalk uses ActiveADAPTER to enable Jane's account
and emails the first-use password to her
Manager at 8am.
On
arrival, Jane is given her first-use
password and logs on with access to
everything she needs.
Microsoft BizTalk
Server 2006 R2, 2009
and 2010.
Yes. Prices for individual components are included
on our price list. Email
salesinfo@activeadapter.com for more
information. An older version of
ActiveADAPTER is available for BizTalk
Server 2006, based on .NET 2.0. Please
contact us if you are interested in
evaluating this version. ActiveADAPTER was
originally developed by Equate IT, a
company registered in Australia. All
developers and consultants have
Australian or US citizenship.
More information can be found in the
EULA displayed during installation of
ActiveADAPTER.
ActiveADAPTER can
update, add to, or clear all properties
that are compatible with string,
number and
byte array data types.
A number of special
properties are also integrated -
objectGUID and objectSid, for example.
This covers virtually all the
properties you can see using Active
Directory Users and Computers. If there are
specific properties you wish to use that
are not currently
supported, our
customization service can
include these in your
licensed product, usually without
additional cost. Yes.
The Active
Directory Receive
Adapter can be used
to create a Receive
Location that queries Active
Directory at regular
intervals and submit the results to your
BizTalk application. A message can be
submitted to BizTalk at every polling
interval, or only when a change occurs
in the query results (this is the "On
Change Only" option on the Active
Directory Receive Adapter property
configuration).
In addition, the
Active Directory Send Adapter can be
used with a Solicit-Response Send Port
to perform an on-demand query. You just
send your query parameters to the send
port in a message that conforms to the
supplied schema, and receive your
results back in a new message. Does ActiveADAPTER supply the schemas I
will need? Absolutely. They are installed to the ActiveADAPTER\Schemas folder. Yes.
The "On Change Only" option on the
Active Directory Receive Adapter
provides this feature. A message is
submitted to your BizTalk application
only when the results of the query you
have specified change.
This feature
provides a great
way to trigger orchestrations and keep
information in your Enterprise
Applications synchronized. Yes. Once
installed, ActiveADAPTER Active
Directory Send and
Receive Adapters will be an
available option for all Send Ports
and Receive Locations. .NET framework 3.5.
If it is not installed it can be easily
downloaded and installed from Microsoft. Yes. The Send
Adapter is fully compatible with dynamic
ports. A sample
orchestration showing
the use of ActiveADAPTER with dynamic
send ports is included in the ActiveADAPTER\Samples folder. The Send Adapter
commits changes per message and per
object. This means
commits cannot span
messages. Within a message, changes to
an object are all committed together. To
ensure changes are all or nothing,
therefore, the
strategy you need to use
is one message per
object. Yes. The adapter
will return any exceptions back to your
application. Any retries or timeouts you
configure will happen as normal for any
send port or receive
locations. Within your
orchestration you can use Scope shapes
to catch exceptions. In your exception
handlers you can retrieve the error
description to determine which way to
branch.
Sample
orchestrations that
illustrates exception handing is
included in the ActiveADAPTER Samples
folder.
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