I'm a FIM 2010 newbie so apologies.

Thus far I'm ok for creating AD users / groups from a csv file via FIM portal.  I can create users in AD and have them synch to FIM. To replace something we do already I'm looking for some way to construct a csv file with users with attributes for example number of group memberships and have this via MA upload into FIM and then out to AD. 

Is there a way to do this even as a 2/3 step process to get the user into FIM then to AD and perhaps via other step, pull in a file and populate FIM and then out to AD to add group memberships.  I've looked at URL for creating Groups but not via an external file that will add user to the groups ...

thanks in advance.

Hello,

sure this is possible, that what the FIM is designed for, but not in exactly the way you state above.

Since you can not set group membership through the user change request, you should have group objects in your file with the members.

But I find csv is not that good for this, which depends on the amount of members.

A AVP (aatribute-value-pair) file would fit much better, like

objecttype: person
employeeID: 12345
attr1: value1
attr2: value2

objecttype: group
attr1: value1
member: 12345
member: xxxxx
member: xxxxx

If you get the final csv already you can format it to a avp with a little magic of PowerShell for example.

With that you can completly automate the whole process of user and group creation all the way to AD

-Peter