Week 10 Posting - Cloud Automation

 Cloud Automation

In the past few weeks I have written about the perks, bonuses, and reasons why a company or organization may want to look into could offerings, however, I left out one final great reason that is truly different than a locally hosted environment.  Automation is the way of the future, this is a way that some work can be offloaded or done without human intervention and can reduce the needed personnel to complete repeating mundane tasks. Some great examples of things that can be automated is new user account setup and share drive mapping, with a simple CSV file upload a server can create a new Windows server active directory user and provide a new private portion of an existing storage drive for the individual user (Herrington, 2021). The idea behind this is to take more time at the beginning to make a template or “cast” of what the basic tasks look like. If every user has the same naming conventions as FLast@myCompany.com then doing a basic search for current company employees such as John Doe and seeing if the user exists, can reduce the time delay for many users. With some basic scripting experience, the template can also look for others with the same username, for example, Jane Doe would also be JDoe@mycompany.com if the user is found it will require an additional letter until the full first name is listed or put a number at the end ie: JaDoe@mycompany or JaneDoe1@mycompany in either situation the process of looking, comparing and creating is the same.

References

Herrington, M. (2021, October 26). New user creation automation. i.t.NOW. https://itnow.net/managed-services/it-solutions-managed-services/new-user-creation-automation/