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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Alex Kwitny 395 on at

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RE: How to Enable AX User through Powershell

I needed to disable/enable users via PS and hoped somebody already solved this. Guess not, here's the solution:

$AXUserId = "TestUser" $EnableUser = $false # Or $true if you want to enable the user Add-Type -Path “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\BusinessConnector\Bin\Microsoft.Dynamics.BusinessConnectorNet.dll” $ax = new-object Microsoft.Dynamics.BusinessConnectorNet.Axapta $ax.logon($null, $null, $null, $null) $ax.CallStaticClassMethod("SysUserManagement", "setUserEnabled", $AXUserId, $EnableUser) Write-Host "Set AX user $AXUserId enabled: $EnableUser"

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Vasudev Kochuveettil 310 on at

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RE: How to Enable AX User through Powershell

ya Vilmos let me go that route which you pointed out

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Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

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RE: How to Enable AX User through Powershell

Let me re-iterate my answer - via Business Connector you could do CRUD operations on tables, and can call any logic you want within AX, directly from PowerShell. That gives you a very easy way to enable your user accounts.

I am using the same way in my PowerShell release script to validate if AIF ports are running on all AOS instances once the services are back online, as an example:

https://www.daxrunbase.com/2016/08/17/validate-aif-ports-running-ax/

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Vasudev Kochuveettil 310 on at

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RE: How to Enable AX User through Powershell

Sorry Chaitanya this doesn't serve my purpose.

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Chaitanya Golla 17,225 on at

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RE: How to Enable AX User through Powershell

Hi,

As we don't have a direct cmdlet to enable a user using power shell as an alternative, you can use the cmdlet Remove-AXSecurityRole and remove all the security roles for the intended user including SystemUser.

By doing so the user can login into AX but he gets a blank screen on logging in with no access to any modules.

Refer Link:

(Remove-AXSecurityRole)

technet.microsoft.com/.../jj720281.aspx

Hope this helps you.

Thanks,

Chaitanya Golla

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Vasudev Kochuveettil 310 on at

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RE: How to Enable AX User through Powershell

Hi Vilmos,

to be clear i am not creating AX users through powershell, i have AX Users already present within AX who are disabled and i want to re-enable only them.

in our scenario we have 300+ AX Users who use our AX System and in that about 100+ are disabled and we don't remove them from AX, Due to various reasons we tend to disable them and when needed we re-enable back them and going forward we would have 7000+ AX users

and due to some business reasons we don't use AD and we have so many Customized AX Security roles which is assigned to AX Users, so AD is going to have lots and lots of groups for various roles which will again complex it out

so as shown in my screenshot disable AXUser was pretty simple but Enable back a disabled AXUser seems not straight forward.

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Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

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RE: How to Enable AX User through Powershell

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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Chaitanya Golla 17,225 on at

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RE: How to Enable AX User through Powershell-- AX2012 R3

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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