Microsoft AD v2 spoke release notes

  • Release version: Store
  • Updated May 5, 2026
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    Summary of Microsoft AD v2 Spoke Release Notes

    The Microsoft Active Directory (AD) v2 Spoke on the ServiceNow Store enables ServiceNow customers to automate a wide range of Microsoft AD tasks. These include user management, group membership, computer management, and authentication processes. The spoke continuously evolves with feature enhancements, new actions, and important fixes that improve integration reliability and functionality.

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    Key Features

    • User Management: Actions such as creating users, looking up users, updating user details, and managing password expiration information.
    • Group Management: Bulk and individual actions to add or remove users and computers from groups, create and delete groups, and verify group existence.
    • Computer Management: Actions to create, delete, enable, disable, and verify the status of computers within AD.
    • Object Management: Create, delete, update, and look up AD objects with support for complex filters and recursive properties.
    • Conversational and AI Integration: Certain actions are now enabled for Now Assist conversational capabilities and include AI agents to streamline workflows.
    • Authentication Templates: The spoke supports authentication templates configurable from the Connections dashboard for secure and efficient integration.
    • Error Handling and Output Enhancements: Modern error handling and complex object outputs were introduced to replace deprecated actions for improved robustness.

    Key Outcomes

    • Improved automation and management of Microsoft AD resources directly from ServiceNow.
    • Enhanced user and group lifecycle management with bulk and recursive action capabilities.
    • Support for handling complex Active Directory environments, including multiple domains and special character handling in organizational units.
    • Increased reliability through regular fixes such as date format support, consistent search results, and permission adjustments for agents.
    • Expanded capabilities to integrate with ServiceNow's AI and conversational interfaces, improving user experience and operational efficiency.

    Version history for the Microsoft AD v2 Spoke on the ServiceNow Store.

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    Version history

    Version 2.5.3 - May 2026
    Fixed: Action: Look up User Password Expiration Details - Various date format support
    Version 2.5.2 - April 2026
    Fixed: Action - Is User In Group
    Version 2.5.1 - October 2025
    • New: Delete Object Action - Created a new equivalent action with additional recursive property.
    • Changed: Delete Object Action - Deprecated the old action
    • Fixed:
      • Look up Computer Action - memberof property.
      • Look up User Action - with users whose OU contains comma (,) & info property.
    Version 2.5.0 - September 2025
    Fixed - Required ACL(s) and Role(s) for agents.
    Version 2.4.1 - August 2025
    Fixed - AI Agents - Renaming and Output transformation strategy
    Version 2.4.0 - March 2025
    Minor release with new AI agents.
    Version 2.3.0 - February 2025
    • Added two conversational Spoke Actions.
    • Fixed: Generate a Random Password Action and avoid a false alarm warning message when the AD is in a different domain than that of the MID Server, or when the MID Server does not have ADWS installed.
    Version 2.2.1 - December 2024
    Fixed: Add User to Group action.
    Version 2.2.0 - November 2024
    Enabled "Look up User" Spoke Action to be Now Assist conversational capable.
    Version 2.1.1 - December 2023
    • Fixed:
      • 'Create User' action now creates appropriate User logon name and assigns it
      • 'Look up Objects by Filter' action now returns consistent results whether search results a single or multiple objects
    Version 2.1.0 - December 2022
    • New:
      • Computer Management - Disable Computer, Does Computer Exists, Enable Computer, Is Computer Disabled
      • Group Management - Add Computer to Groups, Add Computers to Group, Add Users to Group, Create Group, Delete Group, Does Group Exists, Look up Group, Remove Computer from Groups, Remove Computers from Group, Remove Users from Group
      • Object Management - Update Object Expiration
    • Changed: Update action name for metadata actions fromLook up User Additional Fields (Metadata) to Get User Additional Fields (Metadata).
    Version 2.0.1 - November 2022
    • This is a new major release (2.0.0).
    • New:
      • Authentication template for spoke connection from Connections dashboard
      • New User Management actions: Look up User, Update User
      • New Computer Management actions: Create Computer, Delete Computer, Look up Computer, Update Computer
      • New Object Management actions: Create Object, Delete Object, Look up Object by Filter, Update Object OU
      • Added a newer version for the 15 deprecated actions with modern error handling and complex object outputs.
    • Changed:
      • Name of the spoke from "Microsoft AD v2 Spoke" to "Microsoft Active Directory v2 Spoke"
      • Add User to Group -> Add User to Groups for bulk actions
      • Remove User from Group -> Remove User from Groups for bulk actions
    • Removed: Deprecated 15 actions
    Version 1.2.0 - July 2022
    New: This is a minor release for MS AD V2 with a new Create User action.
    Version 1.1.2 - November 2021
    Fixed: Patch release for MS AD V2 with fixes.
    Version 1.1.1 - October 2021
    Fixed: This version fixes an issue at action 'Look up User Password Expiration Details' for user whose password is set to never expire.
    Version 1.1.0 - September 2021
    New: This version adds a new action 'Look up User Password Expiration Details' and other fixes.
    Version 1.0.0 - April 2021
    New: Microsoft AD v2 spoke provides actions to automate Microsoft Active Directory tasks for User Management & Authentication and Group Membership.