Reftool will be updated on Wednesday, August 12, 5:15pm – 5:30pm.

The update expands the scope of searches to multiple domains, including groups that weren’t visible before, and simplifying the expanded profile URL.

AD OU Group Querying

Before this update, Reftool queries an Active Directory for groups within the ‘tss’ domain. This prevented groups from appearing if the user wasn’t also part of that domain.

A new domain lookup method allows us to determine the user’s group, then fetch groups from within that domain’s Active Directory instance.

New Expanded User URL

To query the proper domains for a user, their distinguished name must first be fetched in order to determine their domain. In order for this to work properly when navigating directly to a user’s profile from a URL, the routing has bee simplified.

Previously Reftool user profiles were routed through their explicit GUID:

tools.is.oregonstate.edu/reftool2/%3CGUID%3Dxxx%3E

Now user profiles will be routed through ‘user’ by the username of the account:

tools.is.oregonstate.edu/reftool2/user/username