Adding Users from sharepoint into Active Directory Groups

I have a requirement for Approval Workflow where the Approved User gets added to AD group directly,i think 2 way sync is possible.plz help

Out of the box, I really doubt that this is possible BUT it can more than likely be achieved via the Object Model. A good discussion and some attached code can be seen here.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/a1905a01-e7a7-458b-a7a6-d24cd4e19e09/action?threadDisplayName=add-a-user-in-ad-group-from-sharepoint
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We are running on SharePoint Server 2013.When we add AD groups as permissions, we see that the group name is being displayed properly in the permissions. Whereas when I click on the groupname I see the SID with the Sharepoint specific claims characters,
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Provisioning: Users from OIM to Active Directory

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I am trying to setup provisionig from OIM to AD. I just want to provision Users from OIM to AD.
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Then i tried to test the connection to AD using this documentation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11223_01/doc.910/e11197/testing.htm
And i get this error in the console:
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/3190/errorq.png
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Hello again Raj!
Thank you for your answer. You have always good ideas...
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Need to automatically add newly created user account in an existing active directory group.

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Please tell us the possible ways to achieve this scenario.
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Hi,
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Mark

Hi Lars,
I'm afraid not so far but we are trying a few things today so I will post back with results.
First thing we are doing is making the AD Group universal because one of our (external provider) gurus remembers seeing something about that. He also sent me a link to a post where they were talking about earlier
versions but having similar issues and their solution was to make sure the app pool account has sufficient permissions in AD::
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This part of that thread looks interesting but we haven't checked it yet as were trying the universal setting first:
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the domain controller. By default, the token times out every 24 hours. But if the application pool account did not have the right permissions on the domain controller to update the user’s token, user will keep getting the access denied error. The error was
intermittent because when the user browsed to any page other than the workflow form, the token was getting updated successfully.
You can try to fix it through granting the application pool account the appropriate permission by adding the account to the group “Windows Authorization Access Group” in Active Directory."
I'll update when we try these ideas. If you have any luck please do the same.
Mark
(sorry about formatting - using my phone....)
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