Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

CreateMicrosoftAD

Creates a Microsoft AD directory in the AWS Cloud. For more information, see AWS Managed Microsoft AD in the AWS Directory Service Admin Guide.

Before you call CreateMicrosoftAD, ensure that all of the required permissions have been explicitly granted through a policy. For details about what permissions are required to run the CreateMicrosoftAD operation, see AWS Directory Service API Permissions: Actions, Resources, and Conditions Reference.

Request Syntax


{
   "Description": "string",
   "Edition": "string",
   "Name": "string",
   "Password": "string",
   "ShortName": "string",
   "Tags": [ 
      { 
         "Key": "string",
         "Value": "string"
      }
   ],
   "VpcSettings": { 
      "SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
      "VpcId": "string"
   }
}

Request Parameters

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Description

A description for the directory. This label will appear on the AWS console Directory Details page after the directory is created.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9_])[\\a-zA-Z0-9_@#%*+=:?./!\s-]*$

Required: No

Edition

AWS Managed Microsoft AD is available in two editions: Standard and Enterprise. Enterprise is the default.

Type: String

Valid Values: Enterprise | Standard

Required: No

Name

The fully qualified domain name for the AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory, such as corp.example.com. This name will resolve inside your VPC only. It does not need to be publicly resolvable.

Type: String

Pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+[\\.-])+([a-zA-Z0-9])+$

Required: Yes

Password

The password for the default administrative user named Admin.

If you need to change the password for the administrator account, you can use the ResetUserPassword API call.

Type: String

Pattern: (?=^.{8,64}$)((?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*\d)(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9\s])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9\s])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9\s]))^.*

Required: Yes

ShortName

The NetBIOS name for your domain, such as CORP. If you don't specify a NetBIOS name, it will default to the first part of your directory DNS. For example, CORP for the directory DNS corp.example.com.

Type: String

Pattern: ^[^\\/:*?"<>|.]+[^\\/:*?"<>|]*$

Required: No

Tags

The tags to be assigned to the AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

VpcSettings

Contains VPC information for the CreateDirectory or CreateMicrosoftAD operation.

Type: DirectoryVpcSettings object

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "DirectoryId": "string"
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

DirectoryId

The identifier of the directory that was created.

Type: String

Pattern: ^d-[0-9a-f]{10}$

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ClientException

A client exception has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 400

DirectoryLimitExceededException

The maximum number of directories in the region has been reached. You can use the GetDirectoryLimits operation to determine your directory limits in the region.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterException

One or more parameters are not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

An exception has occurred in AWS Directory Service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

UnsupportedOperationException

The operation is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

The following examples are formatted for legibility.

Example Request

This example illustrates one usage of CreateMicrosoftAD.


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: ds.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 207
X-Amz-Target: DirectoryService_20150416.CreateMicrosoftAD
X-Amz-Date: 20161213T231510Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.11.24 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7 botocore/1.4.81
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 
 Credential=AKIAI7E3BYXS3example/20161213/us-west-2/ds/aws4_request, 
 SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, 
 Signature=5a73aaebf6dd7db4a17ffa5a0a5af7f8e134ad03034cb0b3e05e4f1a999d9e0a

 {
   "ShortName":"ad",
   "Password":"Str0ngP@ssw0rd",
   "Name":"ad.example.com",
   "Description":"Corporate AD directory",
   "VpcSettings":{
      "SubnetIds":[
         "subnet-ba0146de",
         "subnet-bef46bc8"
      ],
      "VpcId":"vpc-45025421"
   }
 }

Example Response

This example illustrates one usage of CreateMicrosoftAD.


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: 00019586-c18a-11e6-870b-c3330207df37
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: 30
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:15:12 GMT

{  
   "DirectoryId":"d-926example"
}