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[Title] Connecting ERP to AD with PowerShell – A Two-way Street [Description] 
Presented by: Steve Moss When we implemented Jenzabar CX as our college’s ERP solution, it became our authoritative data source and the driver for things like Active Directory account creation and maintenance. Initially, we used a series of VBScripts to handle the integration with AD. When I was tasked with fixing and maintaining that code, two things because clear. First, The existing code was virtually unmaintainable. Second, PowerShell made it relatively easy to create a solution that was modular, flexible and easily maintained. I’ll look at how we implemented the communication from CX to AD and from AD to CX using /nSoftware’s PowerShell Server and ODBC. I’ll also look at the way we decomposed the creation and maintenance various types of AD accounts into discrete tasks and used that to create a modular library of functions that allows us to use a building block approach to not only implementing the automated processes that we needed, but also create an interactive set of tools for our Service Desk people to view and modify AD accounts in a controlled way.
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