Remap Users Between Identity Providers Using Your VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal

Starting with version 10.4.2, you can use the VMware Cloud Director UI for bulk remapping of users between identity providers.

Note: With version 10.4.1, VMware Cloud Director started the deprecation process for local users. VMware Cloud Director continues to fully support the use of local users while they are under deprecation. For more details, see VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 Release Notes.

Prerequisites

• Verify that your role includes the Group / User: Manage right.
• Verify that the organization is configured with the identity provider types that you want to remap between.

Procedure

1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Administration.
2. From the secondary left panel, under Provider Access Control, select Users.
3. Click Bulk Update.
4. Click Export Users.
   The users are exported into a CSV file.
5. In the CSV file with the users, change the value in the providerType field to identify the new IDP for each user.
   VMware Cloud Director supports the SAML, LDAP, LOCAL, and OAUTH values. To remap a user to an OIDC identity provider, you must change the value in the providerType field to OAUTH.

   Note: You can remap a user to LOCAL identity provider type only by using the VMware Cloud Director API. See Remap a User Between Identity Providers by Using the VMware Cloud Director API
6. (Optional) To match the user name in the IDP that each user is remapping to, modify the user name.
   For VMware Cloud Director to continue to associate the user's assets with the user when they login through the new login flow, the ID of the user must remain unchanged. Changes to all other fields are ignored.
7. Save your changes and close the CSV file.
8. In the Users Bulk Update wizard, click Next.
9. Click Select CSV File, browse to the file and upload it.
10. Click Next.
11. Click Update.
    When you start the update process, users are remapped one by one. Users for which no changes are detected are skipped. If you close the VMware Cloud Director UI tab while before the process is complete, the update stops.