I am trying to set up subscriptions to send emails to AD users. Here is what we have:
Octopus team called “Software Releasers”
This team has a single member - a global AD security group called “Octopus_Software_Releasers”
This group in turn contains a global AD security group called “Software_Configuration_Management_Team”
Its in this group that the users are put.
The behaviour I expected was that an Octopus subscription targeted at the “Software Releasers” team would send emails to the email addresses stored against the Octopus users that are part of this team.
But no email is sent. It seems that the only it works is to add an Octopus user (not an external group) to the team.
Can you tell me if there’s a better way to achieve what I want to do here?
(Am quietly hoping there’s been some development here but can’t see any evidence of it yet)
Email steps look up the Octopus team, query for all Octopus users in the team and then grab all the email address for those users. So just like the ticket you pointed to, you’ll have to find a solution that puts a user in the team with an email alias.
There is the user voice link on that ticket if you’d like to add your vote to a feature.
Thanks, so just to be super clear here: your summary is only true for users added directly in Octopus.
For users in AD groups, where the AD group is added to the team, this is the exception where even though there is an email address against the user, they are not included in emails.
Please let me know if this logic is not 100% correct.
Yes, thanks for user voice mention - already voted.
Thanks, but mmm, am not sure you quite get what I mean.
We have:
Octopus team called “Software Releasers”
This team has a single member - a global AD security group called “Octopus_Software_Releasers”
This AD group in turn contains a global AD security group called “Software_Configuration_Management_Team”
Its in this group that the users are put.
There is a user, lets call him Bob, who is a member of the “Software_Configuration_Management_Team” AD group. Bob can log into Octopus. He appears as an Octopus user and this user has a valid email address.
But (and I just want to be super clear here), it seems that Octopus cannot send emails to Octopus users in teams, where team membership is derived from AD.
Sorry about this, you’re being very clear and I am not. Yes, you are right, we don’t send emails in the case you are describing. We only find team members added directly to the Octopus team.
