Map Users from External Domains to Newly Created Local Accounts on Demand Tutorial

Map Users from External Domains to Newly Created Local Accounts on Demand Tutorial

Introduction

Thinfinity® Workspace innovates by enabling seamless mapping of users from external identity providers to local or domain users on the host machine, with the feature Create if it doesn’t exist, even when these users are not preexisting in the host environment.

This feature empowers administrators to create local or domain users on the host machine while connecting to external Identity Providers, such as Google, Office 365, Facebook, Azure AD, Okta, and Duo.

The Create if it doesn’t exist function ensures that when a verified user from an external domain logs in, Thinfinity Workspace captures their external ID and automatically generates a corresponding local account on the host machine, complete with pre-established permissions as defined by the administrator.

Tutorial

In this tutorial, we demonstrate the process of mapping external users from various domains to local accounts on the host machine using Thinfinity Workspace secure algorithm:

  1. First, navigate to your Thinfinity Configuration Manager dashboard.

  2. Select the Profile tab, and locate the RDC connection you want to edit.

  3. Click Edit to modify the RDC connection settings.




  4. In the General section, choose Use these credentials and check the box Create if it doesn’t exist. Complete the Pattern and Replace fields with the correct Regular Expression for you.



    Notes

    Creation of users against external domains that use @contoso.com as method of user authentication (works for Azure as well):

    Pattern: ([a-zA-Z0-9\.]+)@contoso\.com\$

    Replace with: targetdomain\\$1

    Creation of users against external domains that authenticate with the domain (Ex. contoso\) as method of user authentication:

    Pattern: ((?i)contoso)\\(.+)

    Replace with: targetdomain\\$2


With this easy-to-use feature, you can quickly and securely access your remote machine with various user authentication options. Thinfinity Workspace makes remote access more effortless than ever before.

If you are setting this feature from your Thinfinity Workspace Web Manager, you need to follow these steps:
  1. First, follow the next steps to create a RDC connection.

  2. Once the profile is created, click on the three dots and go to Edit.




  3. Select Use these credentials from the drop-down menu.




  4. Enable the option Create if it doesn’t exist and complete the Pattern and Replace fields with the correct Regular Expression for you.




  5. Save to submit the changes and commit it to keep them.

NotesYou can also configure the authentication credentials when you are creating the RDC connection profile on the Authentication tab by selecting the Use theses credentials option from the drop-down menu as you can see on the section Creating the Profile of the How to create a new RDP connection in Thinfinity Workspace tutorial.