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The helps you import a list of users from Active Directory to create Microsoft Dynamics AX users. All users must be listed in Active Directory directory services on your domain controller before they can be enabled on the Microsoft Dynamics AX form.

Tasks that use this form

Navigating the wizard

The following sections describe the pages in the wizard.

Welcome to Active Directory Import Wizard

This page introduces you to the wizard. Click Nextto move to the next page.

Select domain

Select the Active Directory domain from which you want to import a list of users. You can search for Active Directory users or Active Directory user groups to generate a list of users.

Use an asterisk (*) for wildcard searches.

Select users

The search criteria gives you a list of Active Directory users that you can add to your Microsoft Dynamics AX system.

Use this page to select the users that you want to import from Active Directory.

Control

Description

Select this check box to add the Active Directory user to your Microsoft Dynamics AX users. You can select all users by clicking the button, or select no users by clicking the button.

AD Alias

The Active Directory alias. The list can be sorted alphabetically.

The display name of the Active Directory user. The list can be sorted alphabetically.

The title of the Active Directory user. The list can be sorted alphabetically.

The department of the Active Directory user. The list can be sorted alphabetically.

The description field for the Active Directory user. The list can be sorted alphabetically.

After you click Next, the next page allows you to verify and edit the selected users to be imported into the Microsoft Dynamics AX system.

The wizard creates user IDs of up to five characters for the new Microsoft Dynamics AX users. The user ID takes the first five characters of the Active Directory alias.

When multiple users within the group have the same first five characters in their Active Directory alias, the wizard automatically generates Microsoft Dynamics AX user IDs for the users, which consist of the first four characters of the Active Directory alias followed by a digit. The resulting page allows you to edit the user IDs before finally importing them into the system.

Select groups

Use this page to add the new Microsoft Dynamics AX users to selected user groups. Do this by selecting the desired user groups from the pane and clicking . This moves the selected user groups into the pane, and the new Microsoft Dynamics AX users will be added to these user groups.

Select profile

Use this page to assign profiles to the list of users imported from Active Directory. A user profile corresponds to a specific role in an organization, such as controller or chief financial officer, and it determines the content that is displayed on the Role Center page for the users who are assigned to that profile.

You can select from the following categories.

Control

Description

Select this option if you do not want a profile to be assigned to the list of users.

Select this option if you want the same profile to be assigned to the list of users for all companies, and then select the profile from the list.

Select this option if you want specific profiles assigned to the list of users for the selected companies, and then select the profile for each company from the lists.

Complete the Active Directory Import Wizard

This is the final page of the wizard. Click Finishto close the wizard.