How to create Custom attribute in MS Active Directory and configure in Liferay

Issue

• Is there any way to map a custom attribute in Liferay created from MS Active Directory?

Environment

• Liferay Portal 6.2

Resolution

• Liferay provides an OOTB option to achieve the custom attribute mapping.

  #
   # When importing and exporting users, the portal will use this mapping to
   # connect LDAP user attributes and portal user's custom attributes.
   #
   #ldap.user.custom.mappings.0=

  At MS Active Directory side:
  

  1. Open CMD with “Run as Administrator”.
  2. Type regsvr32 schmmgmt.dll and hit enter
  3. Click Start, click Run, type mmc, and click OK
  4. On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in
  5. Under Available snap-ins, click Active Directory Schema, click Add, and then click OK
  6. Click on Attributes, type Common Name (ex. testcustom),  Under syntax select “Unicode String” and Under Unique X500 object ID enter 1.2.840.113.556.1.4.2010, click ok
  7. Click on Classes, select User> Attribute> Add
  8. Select a custom attribute and click ok, then click on Apply and then ok
  9. Click Start> Services and restart “Apache Directory domain services”.
  10. Now, if you are not able to find the custom attribute tab, click on Start> Administrative tools> Active Directory Users and Computers and click on view from the top and select Advance Features. Now you can see the custom attribute in the users properties>Attribute Editor.
  11. Click on your custom attribute and provide the value

   

  At Liferay Side:

  1. Create Custom field (Control panel>Custom fields> Add custom fields) ex. Akash_custom
  2. From UI-> Under custom user mapping  field type Custom field key= custom attribute (ex. akash_custom=testcustom)From portal-ext.properties-> set ldap.user.custom.mappings.0=akash_custom=testcustom

Additional Information

• https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20319.how-to-create-a-custom-attribute-in-active-directory.aspx