Testimonial
UMRA has really helped us tighten down our account management procedures and publish them in forms to different ranges of personnel. It's been in incredible time-saver. David Goldsmith Hanford Elementary School District
Testimonial
As an educator juggling multiple duties, I am constantly looking for tools that make network management faster and more efficient. Our school district runs a mixed platform network, and User Management gave me the flexibility I needed to create users with the Active Directory attributes we required to allow staff and students access to their accounts from either Windows 2000/XP or Macintosh OS X environments. User Management's intuitive user interface makes Active Directory attributes more accessible, which will allow us to more effectively use AD for network management tasks. User Management also provides powerful tools for "massaging" student records data. I spent very little time preparing the data we used for input, and that translates into more time and energy devoted to student achievement and meeting staff technology needs. But far and away, I was most impressed with the extraordinary level of customer support. In the sixteen years that I have been purchasing and using various levels of computer and network equipment and software, I have never had service as personalized and thorough as that I received from the Tools4evers America partner. Advanced Toolware. staff. Our purchase of User Management was money well spent. Tim Touhey Vocational Director Chehalis School District
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Introduction - Managing Active Directory |
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| Managing the content of Active Directory has become increasingly complex with the growing need to manage users, groups, organizational units, file access rights and privacy sensitive data more consistently. User Management Resource Administrator is a possible solution to deal with these challenges. Jan Reinders |
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Complexity of User Account management in Active Directory |
| Most employees nowadays have access to many different applications, each with its own user account and corresponding login info. In many cases, the creation and maintenance of these user accounts requires considerable manpower. It is therefore all the more surprising that many companies still create and maintain user accounts in an informal manner. After all, any delay or errors in the creation of user accounts may result in productivity loss.
Apart from the challenge of creating new user accounts, employee data may also change: group memberships, cell phone number, home address, department, etc. These changes obviously have to be reflected in Active Directory.
Another complicating factor is that many organizations store their user data in multiple data repositories. In that case, it becomes crucial to update the data properly across the various different information systems.
In this article, we will review the possible deployment of User Management Resource Administrator, developed by Tools4ever. |
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Unique software for Active Directory |
| User Management Resource Administrator (UMRA) is a unique business application for Active Directory, developed by Tools4ever (www.tools4ever.nl). Using various different UMRA modules, we will try to perform the following: |
- MASS module - mass create new users (as opposed to using the built-in Microsoft tools) in Active Directory;
- Forms & Delegation module - delegating a user management task to a non-administrator (e.g. reception desk) ;
- Automation module - establishing a link with another data store containing personnel data and synchronize the databases.
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| But first we will take a look at the installation of UMRA and the general user interface. |
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