Article - CS39623

How to Reconnect Disconnected Principals in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 10-Nov-2025   


Applies To

  • FlexPLM 11.0 to 13.0
  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.0

Description

  • How to Reconnect Disconnected Principals
  • How to manage people who have their Distinguish Name (DN) changed in the corporate LDAP (for example, Active Directory)
  • Reconnect disconnected users from local WindchillDS
  • Cannot reconnect Windchill users with Active Directory users
  • What should Windchill do after modifying a user's name in the ADS server?
  • How to synchronize users between Active Directory (ADS) and Windchill
  • Steps to be taken after moving users between nodes in ADS
  • ADS got migrated to another/global ADS
  • How to reconnect the user when Active directory to Active Directory user has been moved in Windchill PDMLink
  • Reconnect Disconnected Participant search not working
  • Some users added to ORG ADMIN (Organization Administrator) Group are disconnected and do not have access to the Organization tab in Windchill, and the Users cannot be searched when using Reconnect Disconnected Participant
  • There are no users available, including the wcadmin account, while reconnecting disconnected participants
  • Users are unable to reconnect disconnected users
  • In Windchill PDMLink system, How to replace one user account from one AD with another user account from another AD system
  • After modifying LDAP search base, user a in disconnected state
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