Creating a platform user with AD alias fails in 4.1 (coming from 3.1)

Question

Hi,
I used to be able to create a user using the following:
EnterpriseService boEnterpriseService = s.GetService("", "InfoStore");
                var boInfoStore = new InfoStore(boEnterpriseService);
                var newBoUserPlugin = boInfoStore.PluginManager.GetPluginInfo("CrystalEnterprise.User");
                var userList = boInfoStore.NewInfoObjectCollection();
                var newBoUser = (User)userList.Add(newBoUserPlugin);
                newBoUser.Title = user;
                newBoUser.Aliases.AddNew("secWinAd:" + user, false);
                boInfoStore.Commit(userList);
Unfortunately, it now fails with this error:
Additional information: Failed to commit objects to server :
Create operation failed.
If I omit the alias creation, the user is created normally, but is not linked to an AD account like I need.
Can I achieve the same in 4.1?

Answer 1

There are a couple of things I would try:
1.  Make sure that the Enterprise alias has a password.  In the CMC, you can no longer create a user without a password.
2.  Commit the enterprise user, then add the AD alias and commit again.
Also, it may be looking for the fully qualified name of the user or the user name in the "DOMAIN\user" format when you add the WinAD alias.
-Dell