Feature Request: Automatic Group Assignment Rule

[ric_smith]

Current user flow (K-12): Student signs into product like AutoCAD with SSO. Just-in-time provisioning creates the user automatically in our Autodesk Team. Student has no access to products, and the Teacher must ask the helpdesk to add the student to a group within the Autodesk team in order to access products.

Rather than the helpdesk assigning users to groups manually, I would like to be able to create an automatic group assignment rule, so that new SSO users are added automatically to the group within the Autodesk Team. A quota would prevent misuse.

If that's not possible, then a new admin user role with permissions to add users to groups, but not change roles. This would allow us to delegate group additions to teachers. Currently the secondary admin role has too many permissions for us to delegate to teachers.

Thanks!

[caditupyo]

The whole education doesnt get directory sync really riles me. There is no practical reason to not allow us to do directory sync which would get rid of all the issues. I am sure they can assign groups based on AAD groups and just have everything work as they no doubt do that for enterprise.

Now that they force our hand to get rid of per seat licensing and onto named user, but they dont provide the tools to support that transition correctly. So embarrassing for them, when i have to explain to my users all this.

I will be pushing my educators to look for autocad alternatives and i encourage all education customers to do the same. Its just disrespectful how they are treating us. We give free advertising for their products to all impressionable youths and this is the thanks we get?

Look at how adobe does it for how to do this correctly autodesk, hint, it just WORKS...

for shame.

[snelldUPHC7]

I'm echoing this feature request. We are an educational institution that has historically relied on the network licensing model. Since Autodesk will no longer support the network licensing model at the end of 2027, we've configured Microsoft Entra as our SSO method with JIT provisioning - which is working great for automatically provisioning users to our Autodesk "Team" - however, our all of our newly provisioned users have zero product/license assignments since they are not part of an Autodesk "Group" by default. I connected with Autodesk support and asked if it was possible to "ensure our users are automatically licensed once they sign in for the first time". Autodesk support said "This can only be done by Active directory only." They also said we must configure ADFS for our SSO method and that "The auto [product assignment] option is only available as paid option."

I'm confused as to why Autodesk currently enables IT administrators to automate the account creation process through SSO/JIT, but stops short in allowing us to automate the product/license assignments? 

For education environments, especially those with thousands of students, a default group assignment rule for JIT-provisioned users would be extremely helpful. Ideally, administrators should be able to define a default Autodesk Group for users provisioned from a specific verified domain or SSO connection. Product access could then be assigned to that group, allowing students to be licensed immediately after first sign-in without manual intervention.