GW user provisioning with iManger

Question

I've just updated to Groupwise 2014, and everything seems to be working smoothly, but I need to clear a few things up regarding GW account creation.
In the past, I've manually created users with C1, and I used a template that had Groupwise PO information in it, and it all worked well. I can still create users with this template in C1 with the 2012 snapins, and everything seems to still work fine in GW2014, but I assume this isn't supported. Creating a user with iManager (with the GW plugins) with this same template does not create a Groupwise account at all, and I can't set GW info at user creation; I have to open the user after creation, go to the Groupwise tab, and pick the PO that they should belong to, and I can't actually change any groupwise options, like groups, visibility, nicknames, etc. In this case, the user gets created in GW, but the GW info (like email address, PO, etc) never makes it back into eDir. I do have email publishing enabled for the directory, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.
My question is this: If I create a directory user and want to have a GW account automatically created for them at account creation time, what is the correct way to do that in 2014?
Thanks!
Adam

Answer 1

I've added a significant amount more GroupWise 2014 functionality since the v20 release. Jrbimprt and gwusers can both create users in GroupWise 2014 and make associations. But it is still not possible to create users via a template because there are no appropriate attributes which can be assigned to the template to identify the target 2014 system and the post office in which to create users. The 2012 attributes are not suitable e.g. "NGW: Post Office" must hold an eDir object name. Hence my suggestion to Novell. If necessary I'll provide my own aux class definition, but as I think such an aux class could be widely used, it is better for Novell to provide a standard definition than for 3rd party developers to each devise similar but different
schemes.
Contact me direct if you want to try the post v20 enhancements.
John