Setup
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Configure User Onboarding
Configure Department and Location Roles
6 min
department and location roles are required so you can apply provisioning rules based on a user’s department or physical location they are also used to assign default entitlements for people in those departments or locations these are required to be setup before we can onboard a test user create department roles we'll create a couple of initial roles to get setup, these will change once your actual department and location data is imported open activate studio navigate to roles > departments right click the departments role and select add new role create a new role named administration under departments create another new role named information services under departments create location roles navigate to roles > locations create a new role named auckland under locations create another role named los angeles under locations configure location parameters configure user ou in roles > locations , right click in the parameters window and select new parameter > userou this parameter stores the active directory {{ou}} where new users will be created open the userou parameter click browse… and search for the ou where new user accounts should be created type the ou name and click find select the ou from the search results and click ok if different locations require different ous, repeat these steps for each location configure user home drive settings in the parameters window, right click and select new parameter > userhomeserver this parameter defines the server where user home drives are created if your organisation does not use home drives, skip to the next section double click the userhomeserver parameter enter the server name and share where home drives should be created the default path is \\\server\share\users\loginname where server is the configured parameter value loginname is the username generated in the create user task click ok configure user profile drive settings in the parameters window, right click and select new parameter > userprofileserver this parameter defines the server for user profile drives if your organisation does not use profile drives, skip to the next section double click the userprofileserver parameter enter the server name for profile drives the default path is \\\server\profile\loginname where server is the value configured in the userprofileserver parameter loginname is the login name generated during the create user job configure exchange server settings configure the exchangeserver parameter on the location root this defines which exchange server is used to create mailboxes for on premises exchange , set the value to match the exchange server resource name created earlier in the exchange server configuration for exchange online mailboxes, set the value to office365 for more information on exchange configuration refer to docid\ xksifp3wgqrvzujmbi pn