Microsoft AD Spoke - Update Object/Group Action

[Phil Wright]

I want to update an Active Directory object in Flow Designer but, there is no such action in the Microsoft AD spoke.  Specifically, I want to update the description and manager of a group object.  There are actions to create group, delete group and lookup group, but no update action.  Has anyone developed an action to accomplish this deed?

[NBeheydt]

I had a similar requirement to update a group attribute.  I had to create a custom action that ran a Powershell script to update the object.

[newmanan]

Hi NBeheydt,

Assuming your powershell script solution is working, any chance you could share the steps you took to achieve this and the script used? 

Thanks

Andy

[NBeheydt]

Our requirement was to update the AD object GID.  Here is the Powershell script.  You can probably ignore the code regarding the RID as that was a specific requirement based on how we set this value.

# Retrieve the group object from Active Directory
$Group = Get-ADGroup -Filter {samAccountName -eq $GroupName} -Properties objectSid -Credential $cred -Server $computer

if ($Group) {
# Extract the RID from the objectSid property

$RID = $Group.objectSid.Value.Substring($Group.objectSid.Value.LastIndexOf("-") + 1)
Write-Host "$GroupName;$($Group.SID);$RID"
$GIDNUM = 1000000000 + $RID
# Write-Host "Set-ADGroup $GroupName -Replace @{ gidNumber=$GIDNUM}"
Set-ADGroup $GroupName -Replace @{gidNumber=$GIDNUM}
} else {
Write-Host "Group not found: $GroupName $Group"
}

Then created a custom flow Action that runs the script and outputs (true/false) whether the script ran successfully to update the object.

[newmanan]

Hi,

script looks good thank you - I need a little help to confirm what the custom flow action looks like - would you mind sharing that too please?

Thanks