Testimonial
As network administrator in a busy high school, I had a problem creating 1100 pupils and 140 staff after a major network upgrade. Our old user creation module was not compatible with the new system, a fact I only found out 2 weeks before the start of term! I contacted tools4ever after finding Usermanagement on their website in a search. I must say I was pleasantly surprised with the level of suppo...
Testimonial
UMRA has been a great help for us to get grip on our usermanagement. We use it to delegate usermanagement to our service department, to auto-update users with input from our personel files and for mass-edit -move and -check users. UMRA -and its support- has proven itself to be very flexible in use even in a complex environment.
Ing. A. Gotink ICT Expert / Productmanager Windows
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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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NetOpus Review - Table of contents