Template Naming Patterns

Secret Server supports naming patterns for secret templates. Naming patterns are a way for administrators to maintain consistency for secret names and can help ease both browsing and grouping secrets by name. Patterns are created using regular expressions. Regular expressions are a formal set of symbols commonly used to match text to patterns. For example, the regular expression ^\w+\\\w+$, allows NTDOMAIN01\USER3454 but not USER3454 on NTDOMAIN01.

Regular expressions are beyond the scope of this document. They are very powerful and can get quite complex—books have been written on the topic. Microsoft offers a good overview at their Regular Expression Language Quick Reference Web page.