Active Directory Management
Every IT Administrator faces the challenge of managing user accounts in
Active Directory almost everyday. Configuring user properties manually is
extremely time consuming, tiresome, and error-prone, especially in a
large, complex Windows network. Moreover, accomplishing these tasks also
demands a deep knowledge in Active Directory and related technologies
A software that can automate these cumbersome tasks, simplify AD
management and provide exhaustive reports on tasks done and their status,
is the need of the hour. ADManager Plus is one simple solution for Active
Directory Management that is just a click away.
ADManager Plus is a comprehensive web-based Active Directory Management
software that simplifies User provisioning and Active Directory
administration. The solution features a single console from which IT
management can view and manage Active Directory users, computers,
contacts, groups and reports on Active Directory environment. ADManager
Plus avoids manual, error prone administrative activities on Active
Directory and saves time and cost.
The ADManager Plus, with its ease-of-use, intuitive UI, eliminates the need
of using command line tools and scripts to manage the Active Directory. It
saves the administrator's time with its integrated management and reporting
module.
User Management
ADManager Plus makes it simple to manage thousands of your active
directory users through its bulk user operation and easy-to-work
interface. User management in ADManager Plus helps you to create and
modify users, configure their general attributes, exchange attributes,
terminal services attributes, etc.
Computer Management
This feature allows you to manage all the computers in your environment
from anywhere, you can modify the group & general attributes of computers,
move them between organizational units and enable/disable them.
Group Management
Managing windows groups gets more flexible with our Group management,
where in you can create and modify groups, add/remove bulk users to them
and configure exchange attributes all at one instant.
Contact Management
All the active directory users contacts can be imported and can be updated
in active directory. This simplifies the tedious process of selecting
individual users and updating his contact attributes.
Help Desk Delegation
Using this feature administrator can create help desk technicians and
delegate them desired tasks like reset passwords, unlock user accounts,
create users, etc. Help desk users can share workload of administrators
and let him concentrate on core administrative activities.
Reports & Management
ADManager Plus provides information on different active directory objects
as reports, and allows you to view, analyze the information from here
itself.
Ex: You can get the list of all inactive users from the 'inactive users'
report and modify the account status to active from the reports itself.
After reading the above description if you feel that one needs to have a
sound knowledge of Active Directory you are mistaken, rather this tool is
engineered to meet the difficulties of Administrators who are not experts
in Active Directory; all the operations you perform through ADManager Plus
will be very simple and user friendly.
Other features
Active Directory Reset Password - Resetting expired, forgotten or
compromised passwords is a everyday work for Administrators. ADManager
Plus has an in-built dedicated feature aimed at reducing this manual work
Active Directory Terminal Services - Microsoft Terminal Services allows IT
departments to bring their applications to a single server for use by
users anywhere in the world. ADManager Plus facilitates the bulk
modification of these terminal services attributes from one single place.
Cleanup your Active Directory by Removing unused user accounts - Over
time, user and computer accounts become obsolete and needs elimination.
ADManager Plus helps you to trace out all inactive, disabled,
account-expired users and computers in Active Directory.
Give restricted access to help desk and IT staff to manage AD users and
objects - The administrator can create a login for the HR personnel with
the permission to create new users in the Active Directory. The HR
personnel can login and access only the delegated task of creating new
users
Active Directory bulk user modification - ADManager Plus allows mass
modification of user attributes, including the Exchange and Terminal
Services attributes. Common modifications, such as resetting password,
changing the display name, creating mailbox, moving users between OUs.
Active Directory Security Delegation
ADManager Plus uses role-based permission management for efficient Active
Directory Administration. A role is a logical grouping of permissions
based on common security administration tasks. Access Control Lists (ACLs)
hold the permissions associated with a Active Directory objects. Access
Control Entries (ACEs) of the object's access control lists that
determines security principles and the permissions associated with it.
Creating security roles is much simpler than manipulating Access Control
Lists (ACLs). The Security roles can be easily delegated consistently to
more than one user or computer or a group. This minimizes error and
ensures consistency in delegating security permissions.
Out-of-the-box Delegations
ADManager Plus comes with the built-in security roles that can be directly
delegated to the security principals to grant the following permissions
* To reset the user password
* To unlock the user accounts
* To add or remove members from groups
* To move users to a different OU within the domain
* To move computers to a different OU within the domain
* To add/remove workstations in the domain
* To create user accounts
* To create, delete, and modify attributes of the user accounts
Search ACEs
ADManager Plus provides you the ability to search the permissions granted
to security principals, such as users, groups, and computers. It offers
you the flexibility to include the active directory object, security
principal, and the permissions in the search criteria.
Active Directory Help Desk Delegation
As organizations grow, networks, additional resources, system maintenance,
and administrative tasks also grow at same pace. It becomes difficult for
a single department to manage complete Active directory in a timely and
effective manner, thus making 'Delegation of Active Directory tasks'
crucial.
Fortunately, ADManager Plus provides the much-needed ability to delegate
routine management and support tasks throughout the enterprise with its
powerful 'Help Desk delegation' feature. It allows administrator to
delegate tasks to non administrative users like help desk technicians with
appropriate authentication and authorization controls that dramatically
reduces the work load on Administrator and saves time and cost.
Help Desk Delegation Process
In a real time environment an administrator spends unproductive time
attending tickets like reset passwords, unlock users, rename users, move
computers/users, modify general properties etc., these issues can now be
handled by non-administrative users with out involving administrator.
