Simple installation – Active Directory Software |
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| Installing UMRA is not very difficult. UMRA has three different modules: MASS, Forms & Delegation and Automation. For Forms & Delegation and Automation a service is installed which checks the authorization of the user and executes the command. During the install you have the option to install one or more modules, depending on your license (which is related to the number of users in your domain). There is no standard retail price for UMRA. A 30-day trial version can be downloaded to evaluate the product, without any limitations. The only exception is for MASS, with which you can only import 5 users in the trial version. See figure 1 for an overview of the UMRA architecture. |
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| Figure 1: Overview UMRA architecture |
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Console |
| The console is the main user interface for the administrator.
When you create a project in the console, a choice can be made between a bulk project (MASS project), a forms project (delegation project) and an Automation project. To each project, script actions can be visually added as shown in Fig. 2 (item 4). The ‘Create User’ example shown in Fig. 1 not only creates the user “Reinders” in a specific OU, but also conditionally assigns the user to a group based on information in the .CSV file. The actions can easily be dragged and dropped from window 3 to window 4. These script actions need to be configured by specifying the corresponding properties (e.g. name of an OU or the name of a group). This is the basic principle for all functions in UMRA. The concept of the software may be simple, but the number of actions and options is simply overwhelming which makes the software fairly complex. After a few hours of testing however, more and more options become clear: removing duplicate names, adding sequential numbers to an account, moving home directories and setting file access rights with the correct SID. The most complex scripts can be assembled in this way, for instance moving users and assigning them to another group under certain conditions. Using Wizards in the Tools menu, scripts can be quickly drafted and fine tuned later on. To practice, several demo projects are available. Be careful when running scripts in a production environment. Make sure to use the simulation mode until you are absolutely certain that the scripts can be safely executed. |
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| Figure 2 - Overview UMRA interface (Mass project) |
- Imported text file ;
- Imported result. This should not contain any errors when you switch from test mode to production ;
- Script actions which can be selected ;
- Created script. In the 30 day evaluation version the import will stop after 5 lines. In log pane 2 an error message appears. "Joop Smits" is the last user account which has been imported.
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