How to Enable AX User through Powershell

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Can some one please let me know the command how to Enable an AX User who is already disabled with in AX2012 R3 through Powershell.

i tried through AX Management shell below command

Enable-AXUser –AXUserId Demo –Server DemoAX

but it says

Enable-AXUser : The term 'Enable-AXUser' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

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Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

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It is because you ran PowerShell directly without loading the AX PowerShell cmdlets, so obviously the command is not visible.

You must run the AX Management Shell once you have installed it. Refer to the documentation:

[View:https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh272856.aspx:750:50]

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Vasudev Kochuveettil 310 on at

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Vilmos,

Please find the screenshot below let me know if i am doing something wrong

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Munib 2,500 on at

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Hi

Enable-AXUser isn't supported from what I know. Have a look at this list.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh706141.aspx

If you type the first few letters of the command and click on the Tab key on the keyboard. It will rotate through available commands.

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Vasudev Kochuveettil 310 on at

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Ya that's absolutely right Munib i couldn't get the command, so only i asked in the forum, if there is a way we can enable AX User through Powershell

or is it that we need to go via T-SQL or AX Job

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Chaitanya Golla 17,225 on at

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Hi,

You can enable a user using the following ax job

static void enableUsers(Args _args)

{

UserInfo userInfo;

;

//xyz is the user id which we want to enable.

while select forUpdate userInfo where userInfo.id == 'xyz'

{

if(userInfo)

{

ttsBegin;

userInfo.enable = 1;

userInfo.update();

ttsCommit;

}

}

}

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Vasudev Kochuveettil 310 on at

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Hi Sukrut,

yes I am doing some automation through powershell, so one of the requirements is to enable users in AX

I am able to disable the AX users which happens in milliseconds but I need to enable users where I am stuck currently, so figuring how to do it in powershell.

its very strange to me that there is a direct command to disable AX user through powershell but to enable we don't have a cmdlet, there should be some reason for this by Microsoft for not providing one.

its just through AX UI you uncheck the box and user is enabled or disabled and within SQL it reflects in userinfo table as either 0 or 1 (disabled/enabled)

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Chaitanya Golla 17,225 on at

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Hi,

If you look at the syntax of New-AXUser cmdlet there is an option to enable the newly created user.

Parameter: [-Disabled]

Syntax:

New-AXUser -AccountType <String> -AXUserId <String> -UserDomain <String>

-UserName <String> [-ClearTextPassword <String> ] [-Company <String> ]

[-CreateInProvider] [-Disabled] [-PartitionKey <String> ] [ <CommonParameters>]

Refer link: technet.microsoft.com/.../jj720263.aspx

This cmdlet allows to create a new user in AX and by default, users are enabled. Probably you can make use of this(by adjusting your automation steps sequence).

Thanks,

Chaitanya Golla

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You could also call AX through Business Connector via PowerShell to update the user information and get it enabled either in the table, or through the actual functionality that the AX form is using (which does additional validations in the AD).

[View:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axinthefield/harness-the-power-of-powershell-and-the-business-connector-too/:750:50]

My question would be why are you bothering to create/enable users from PowerShell, when AX supports using Active Directory groups, from where users could be automatically added to AX, and get specific security roles allocated?

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