Creating New Users in MOVEit Transfer 2018 with PowerShell

In the previous articles, we focused on MOVEit Automation's REST API, but it’s now time to focus on MOVEit Transfer.

To get started with MOVEit Transfer’s API, we’ll again have to grab an access token. We’ll then use this access token throughout all of the API calls we make to the MOVEit Transfer API. The process is the same as MOVEit Automation. The only difference is the URL endpoint to connect to.

Below is the PowerShell code you can use to get a token.

$hostName = 'MyMoveITTransferServer'
 $authEndpointUrl = "https://$hostName/api/v1/token"
 $authHttpBody = @{
     grant_type = 'password'
     username   = 'myuser'
     password   = 'mypassword'
 }
 
 [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::ServerCertificateValidationCallback = { $true }
 $token = Invoke-RestMethod  -Uri $authEndpointUrl -Method 'POST' -Body $authHttpBody
 $token = $token.access_token

Related: Using The New MOVEit 2018 REST API With PowerShell

Once you’ve got the token, it’s now time to create the new user. The most important part of this task and with all API operations using the MOVEit REST API is to get the JSON body you’ll be sending to the API correctly. The JSON body is the main component of the call and is used to store all of the attributes of the user being created. To create a new user, we first need to create a text file in JSON representing the user attributes. Below is an example.

JSON {     "fullName": "Adam Bertram",     "username": "abertam",     "password": "passwordhere12",     "email": "adam@adamtheautomator.com",     "permission": "User",     "mustChangePassword": true,     "notes": "Coolest automator ever!",     "homeFolderPath": "/home/abertram",     "homeFolderInUseOption": "AllowIfExists"  }

I’m going to assume this JSON file path is at C:.json on your local computer. Once you’ve got the JSON file created, it’s then time to gather up all of the parameters you’ll be passing to the Invoke-RestMethod command in PowerShell. Since we covered these parameters in previous articles, I’ll just document them here.

• Uri : The API endpoint to connect to
• Headers : The Authorization header containing the access token
• Method : The HTTP method to use when making the API call
• Body : The JSON text from the file we created.
• ContenetType : The type of text in Body. This will always be application/json

The parameters can be stored in a hashtable.

$newUserParams = @{
     Uri         = 'https://<moveittransferservername>/api/v1/users'
     Headers     = @{ 'Authorization' = "Bearer $token" }
     Method      = 'POST'
     Body        = (Get-Content -Raw -Path 'C:\DemoUser.json')
     ContentType = 'application/json'
 }

Once all of the parameters have been defined, we can then pass them all to Invoke-RestMethod at once using splatting.

PS> Invoke-RestMethod @newUserParams
 
 emailFormat          : HTML
 notes                : Coolest automator ever!
 statusNote           :
 passwordChangeStamp  : 2018-03-17T13:26:02
 receivesNotification : ReceivesNotifications
 forceChangePassword  : False
 folderQuota          : 0
 authMethod           : MOVEitOnly
 language             : en
 homeFolderID         : 464845759
 defaultFolderID      : 464845759
 expirationPolicyID   : 0
 id                   : ua26iyn8v6q49l8g
 orgID                : 7797
 username             : abertam
 realname             : abertam
 permission           : User
 email                : adam@adamtheautomator.com
 status               : Active
 lastLoginStamp       : 0001-01-01T00:00:00

If you receive an output like above, that means it was successful. To confirm, log into the MoveIT Transfer web interface, and you should see the user created!