Using GCPW with Windows 11

[User3204]

Hi,

We have Google as our main mail/calendar/drive online.

We have Windows 11 on site.  Students don't always login to Chrome on Windows, and they rarely login to Google Drive.

 

We were trying to simplify this, by setting up GCPW, which makes them use google to login to the Windows computers.  We still need Adobe and other things on Windows, so we can't just dump them onto Flex.

 

I can't get GCDS to put the usernames into Google.  It's supposed to have a field on Google called AD_accounts with DOMAIN\USERNAME, but despite Gemini telling me what I need to type in, the sync just ignores the field.  The instructions online seem to gloss over with "...use GCDS to import these settings..."  I've checked and we're on the most recent GCDS 5.0.39.  There seems to be no way to concatenate two fields.

 

Is anyone using GCPW to login like this, and if so, how do they sync the AD usernames?

Cheers.

[k-strider]

i am at home now so cant look, but when we were looking after a primary we tried to do something similar i want to say its called AD_accounts found in Enhanced desktop Security under the user information (if you browse a user in the google admin console) we set the o field in each users AD object to DOMAIN\username via Powershell (and our powershell user creation script did the same for new users)

 

in Google Workspace Sync tool GCDS we mapped this to AD_accounts (this is the bit i really cant check right now if i remember tomorrow i will follow up with a screen shot of the GCDS section it is in)

 

that's the bit we needed to kinda link the AD account to the google account.... it was about 4 years ago so memory is not any better than sketchy.... but that may be  bit of a hint to get you going in the right direction

[User3204]

Hi,

 

Hmm, so I wonder, does anyone use this ?

 

I know I need to add the AD_Accounts into GWS, but the GCDS tool can only add existing fields, and so it can add $USERNAME, but not $DOMAIN\$USERNAME, unless we create a field in AD with this data in.