topic Re: AD Users Connection: filter "Removed Externally" users in Management & Governance

AD Users Connection: filter "Removed Externally" users

bmenicucci — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:40:56 GMT

Hello geeks,

I'm facing a quite annoying issue: I've set up a users connection to AD of a customer of mine, which contains almost 50K users. Though, many of them are flagged as "Removed Externally", that means they're no longer part of the company.

My question: is it possible to prevent the import of such users?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Re: AD Users Connection: filter "Removed Externally" users

Levi_Turner — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:48:08 GMT

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: When performing a User Directory Connector synchronization in Qlik Sense, Qlik will perform an operation where it will do at least #1 and potentially #2:

Request attribute information about the users from that domain that are already inside of Qlik Sense (QMC > Users)
Request a listing of all users which are exposed by the UDC (i.e. you can use an LDAP filter) and pull their attribute information

#1 is where you'd see a user being listed as "Removed Externally".

If you'd wish to remove them then you have two options:

Manually deleting them in the QMC (you can filter on Removed Externally = Yes to make things easier)
Programmatically by using the QRS API, example here.

Re: AD Users Connection: filter "Removed Externally" users

bmenicucci — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:14:10 GMT

@Levi_Turner got it! Thanks a lot for your help

...and your script looks awesome 😃