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UserManagemeNT - Active Directory Manangement


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Release changes

This topic describes all changes of UserManagemeNT. See Release notes for major software changes.

Version 5.4, Build 1861, Release date 07-09-2004

  1. Delegation. Fix. When managing services from the delegation client, and a machine did have a very large numeber of services, the UM delegation client reported an error when collecting them. This has been fixed.(1859,06-10-2004)

  2. Run command line. Modification: when removing users, the command line specified is now run before any other operation on the user, instead of after the deletion. This allows the run command to access the user data before it potentially deleted by the remove operation.(1859,06-10-2004)

  3. General. Fix. When using the "search OU" button to search for w2000 orginazational units (in configure /setup domains), a rare error situation was not properly handled, and caused the application to hang. This has been fixed.(1861,07-09-2004)

Version 5.4, Build 1853, Release date 08-19-2003

  1. Import. Fix. The option "Allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to this object". was not always set correctly for home directories when using the Import functionality. Now it is set appropriatly, according to the specifications in the general settings.

Version 5.4, Build 1852, Release date 05-28-2003

  1. Extensive import examples added. Enhancement. Added several major import scenario descriptions to the program help documentation.

Version 5.4, Build 1843, Release date 02-18-2003

  1. Move users's resources for Mac files. Enhancement. Modified the file copy process when moving NTFS home directories: added support for copying multi-stream files. Alhough windows NT and windows 2000 do not use multi-stream files, other operating systems may create such files, and these are now correctly copied when home directories are moved (1843).

Version 5.4, Build 1842, Release date 12-02-2002

  1. Manage Passwords Enhancement. The option in configuration/setup general settings/passwords, wich enables to generate random passwords, is now also implemented for modifying existing users. Earlier it was only implemented when creating new users.(1842, 12-02-2002)

  2. Delegation Enhancement. The option in configuration/setup general settings/passwords, wich enables to generate random passwords, is now also implemented in UserManagment Delegation. Earlier it was only implemented in UserManagment Professional (1842, 12-02-2002)

  3. Delegation. Enhancement. When creating users, the mechanism to check for the uniqueness of the proposed username has been improved (1842, 12-02-2002)

Version 5.4, Build 1841, Release date 11-01-2002

  1. Import. fix. In Windows2000, the attribute "user cannot change password" was not always updated when runing import. This has been modified.(1841, 11-01-2002)

  2. Import. Fix. Value conversion table. If the number of entries in the value conversion table for a single variable was very large, then after a certain number of entries (in the order of 150, depending on size of each entry), the rest of the entries in the table where discarded. The the maximum number of entries has been increased by a factor of 8.(1839, 10-16-2002)

  3. Delegation: Fix. On XP, the browsing for domains in the configuration dialog for the setting of the rights of the delegated users of the program failed in certain circumstances. This now works.(1839, 10-16-2002)

  4. Import. Fix. When specifying the format for the export file, the dropdownbox now correctly list the correct names for the variables that refer directly to the import fields. The names of these variables have been changed since build 1830 to prevent confusion with predefined variables of the same name, but the list box showed still the old names. Also, for backwards compatability, the default old names of these variables are also accepted again (%f1%, %f2%, etc). (1836, 10-10-2002)

  5. Browsing for w2k OU's. Fix. In some circumstances, when the workstation running UserManagmeNT was is a different domain as the domain of the w2k account running the application, browsing for w2k domains succeeded, but browsing for OU's failed in the configure/setup domain tab. This has been solved. (1835, 10-08-2002)

  6. NTFS access rights (ACL) on Home Drectories and Profiles. For Windows 2000 and XP, it is now possible to set the option "Allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to this object". This setting will allow windows to update the permissions when access rights of the parent directory are modified. (1834, 10-04-2002)

  7. General: New feature added: When selecting users in the "Manage Password", "Remove user" or "Move users's resources" tabs, You can optionally specify that the full name of the user must be shown.(1834, 10-04-2002)

  8. Username syntax specification: New feature added. You can now optionally specify that the automatically generated username must be unique across all configured domains, instead of only in the domain its is created in.1834, 10-04-2002)

  9. Import: Fix. Updating an existing user that has a "," in the full name will now succeed.(1834, 10-04-2002)

  10. Create User: Fix. In some cases, when creating a new user in windows2000, Updating the setting "user cannot change password". failed because a Windows 2000 function to translate between different formats of user object failed. We have changed the method, so this translation is done by an other method.(1834, 10-04-2002)

  11. General: Increased the number of exceptions that can be configured in the general settings to over 400.(1828, 08-09-2002)

  12. General: Fix. When specifying " Read only" access for user shares, this right was not set properly.It now is.(1828, 08-09-2002)

  13. WindowsXP: Fix. Browsing for NT4 Domains or servers from the program when running on windows XP failed. This has been fixed. (1830, 16-09-2002)

  14. Import: Fix. When updating existing w2k users, the group membership is now also updated. Prior this worked only for NT4 accounts.(1828, 08-09-2002)

  15. Import: Fix. Updating password account settings for existing users in W2k. Fixed a problem wich caused the password properties (such as Password expired, user must change password at next logon, etc) to be incorrectly updated when changing attributes for existing users. (1828, 08-09-2002)

  16. Import: Fix. If the user renamed the import field names (f1,f2,f3 etc). a name conflict could arise between the modified name of the import field and predefined variables used in UM import. This is solved. As a consequense, if the import field is used as a variable it should from now on be referenced as %IMPORTFIELD_<variable name>%. Thus if a import field is renamed to eg "username", it should be referenced as %IMPORTFIELD_USERNAME% (1830, 16-09-2002)

  17. Import: New feature added: When creating and/or updating a user, and a template is specified, the user's primary group is taken from the specification in the template if specified, instead of using the default value, in both w2k and NT4. Prior the primary group was only used when creating the user with the "create user" tab and only for NT4 accounts. (1828, 08-09-2002)

  18. Create user: New feature added: The primary group specification in the template file is now also used when creating w2k accounts. Prior it was only implemented for NT4 accounts. (1828, 08-09-2002)

  19. Manage Password; fix. When using w2k, this option now uses direct Active Directory calls instead of NT4 compatible calls. In some specific circumstances, the NT4 call could fail on a win2k computer. (1830, 16-09-2002)

  20. Manage Password: Fix. The password attribute check boxes do now not change state when the apply button is pressed. (1828, 08-09-2002)

Version 5.4, Build 1826, Release date 05-21-2002

  1. General: Fixed a problem that caused the GUI to crash on accessing detailed user info when the UMDB files were in error. This could occur for instance when the PC was forcibly shutdown in a previous session (for instance because of a power failure or a hard reboot) , and an update of the file was is progress at the same time. Now UM can recover from such a situation. (1823, 17-05-2002).

  2. Create user: New feature added: the ability to automatically generate random passwords.(1817,3-1-2002)

  3. Create user: New feature added: optional creation of an export file to be able to document generated passwords.(1817,3-1-2002)

  4. Create user: New feature added: In the general configuration it is now possible to specify in addition to the user description, an extra user comment. This is filled in the extra user comment field available in NT4. Note that many NT4 applications do not expose this field, but some do, and now it is possible to set its contents. Default this field is not shown when creating a user. You can create a custom field and keyword if you want to specify the field on a per user base. See Specifying user attributes and properties for general information.(1817,3-1-2002)

  5. Create user: Fixed a problem with the display when using "large fonts" in windows. (1819, 03-14-2002)

  6. Create user: Changed the size of the domain dropdown listbox, so very long names of domains or organizational units will show completely; added a tooltip to show the entire name of the selected domain, when the mouse is over the selected domain. Useful if the size of the box is too small to show the entire name. (1823, 05-17-2002)

  7. Exchange 2000: Fixed a problem when creating mail settings, if the full name of the user contains a ",". (1819,03-14-2002)

  8. General: Fixed a problem that in some specific circumstances on a fresh installation of the program the local user information database did not initialize properly, wich caused the program not to start. The problem only occurs in version 1823. (1824,05-21-2002)

  9. Create user: Fixed a problem with the optional "additional user properties" window. When the default value of a field consisted entirely of space characters, this was not saved correctly in the um.ini file, which caused the field not to be displayed. (1819,03-14-2002 )

Version 5.4, Build 1811, Release date 1-18-2002

  1. Windows 2000-Exchange 5.5: When Exchange 5.5 was installed on a NT4 or Windows 2000 server in a Windows2000 domain with more than one domain controller in the domain, and UsermanagmeNT was not running on the PDC emulator, the creation of Exchange 5.5 email boxes could fail for new users, because the new created user account might be not yet known on the PDC emulator, due to synchonisation delays. This problem has been solved by inplementing the option "Always get user info from primary domain controller", also for Windows2000. See Specify domains, OU's and users to manage.

  2. General: When opening the list of accounts to choose from for removing users, or managing passwords, this could take a very long time if the program was updating its local list of users in the background, for very large networks. This has been solved.

Version 5.4, Build 1803, Release date 9-14-2001

  1. Manage passwords: The option to disable and enable selected user account is added to the manage password tab for UserManagemeNT Delegation and UserManagemeNT Import. See Manage passwords for more information (1793, 6-13-2001).

  2. General: The UserManagemeNT Online help system is ported to the HTML help format. (1803, 9-14-2001)

  3. General: A problem is solved to create a unique ‘Full name’ for new user accounts in the Active Directory. Both UserManagemeNT Professional and UserManagemeNT Delegation will add a number to the ‘Full name’ to make it unique when a user account with the same full name already exists (1795, 7-11-2001).

  4. Delegation: The computer accounts in global groups that are the target of delegated administrative actions are no longer shown. For instance, if the ‘Domain users’ group is selected as the target for a delegated admin to grant the ‘Reset password’ permissions, the computer accounts are no longer shown. See Specifying specific administrative access right for more information (1793, 6-13-2001).

  5. Delegation: A command can be executed when user accounts are removed. The command is specified in window Configure, Setup general settings, Run, section Run command when deleting user accounts. See Configure commands to execute for more information (1793, 6-13-2001).

  6. Delegation: When deleting a user account with UserManagemeNT Delegation, the deleted account is now also removed from the list shown by UserManagemeNT Delegation (1793, 6-13-2001).

  7. Delegation: A problem is solved when parsing the command line to execute (1795, 7-11-2001).

  8. Delegation: A bug regarding the option Deny: Reset password – unlock account in the UserManagemeNT Delegation Configuration dialog is fixed. See Specifying specific administrative access right for more information (1793, 6-13-2001).

  9. Delegation: A problem is solved when using Windows Terminal Server and UserManagemeNT Delegation. When a user account is created and the username already exists, the UserManagemeNT Delegation service will make the username unique. In previous versions, terminal server settings were assigned to the old existing username instead of the new account. The problem has been fixed (1796, 8-3-2001).

  10. Import: For existing user accounts, it is now possible to create the user home directory and private share only (1796, 8-3-2001).

  11. Import: UserManagement Import now correctly handles NT4 domain names with a dot (.) in the name (DOMAIN.NET).

  12. Import: In previous versions, UserManagemeNT Import did not allow you to create more then one Exchange2000 mailbox when creating user accounts. The problem has been fixed. (1796, 8-3-2001)

  13. Windows 2000 – Exchange 2000: When creating user accounts in Windows 2000, UserManagemeNT might need to change the full name of the new account to make it unique. In previous version, the old full name was associated with the new Exchange E-mail box. The problem has been fixed (1796, 8-3-2001).

  14. Windows 2000 - Exchange 2000: UserManagemeNT now supports the deletion of Exchange 2000 mailboxes. The deletion of Exchange 2000 mailboxes is supported for UserManagemeNT Professional, Import and Delegation. See Microsoft Exchange 2000: Deleting Exchange 2000 mailboxes for more information. (1803, 9-14-2001)

  15. Windows 2000: A bug has been fixed when creating or updating user properties, attributes or permissions. The bug might cause UserManagemeNT to crash in JVRAD.DLL when it failed to obtain security identifier information from Windows 2000 user accounts (1797, 9-4-2001).

  16. Windows 2000: The full name can now contain the comma (,) character (1796, 8-3-2001).

  17. Windows 2000: The option User cannot change password is now functional (1796, 8-3-2001).

  18. Windows 2000: You can now specify ou's and domain names manually if for whatever reason UserManagemeNT or Active Directory fails to find all domains and ou's. See Specify domains, OU's and users to manage for more information. (1803, 9-14-2001).

  19. Import - Windows Terminal Server: A license problem is solved when using UserManagemeNT Import with Windows Terminal Server. In previous version, Windows Terminal Server was not supported for UserManagemeNT Import only licenses (1803, 9-14-2001).

 

Version 5.4, Build 1787, Release date 2-23-2001

  1. Import: Support mass deletion and disabling of user accounts with UserManagemeNT Import. Besides deleting the user account, you can also disable accounts, remove group memberships, delete user profile directories, remove home directories, change home directory permissions and remove Exchange mailboxes. See Deleting and disabling multiple user accounts with UM Import for more information. (1784, 12-08-2000)

  2. General: When upgrading to this version with demo installations, the demo period is restarted. (1787, 2-23-2001)

  3. General: The command line parameter can contain more then 128 characters. (1787, 2-23-2001)

  4. Remove user: Remove the user profile directory. See Remove user for more information. (1784, 12-08-2000)

  5. Remove user: The option to remove the user profile directory is stored and retrieved when the application is restarted. (1787, 2-23-2001)

  6. Delegation: Supports removing the user profile directory. See Remove user for more information. (1787, 2-23-2001)

  7. Delegation: The UserManagemeNT Delegation service writes log message to the application log with the appropriate information.

  8. Exchange 2000: Some minor changes to find Exchange mailbox stores are applied (1785, 12-11-2000)

 

Version 5.3, Build 1782, Release date 11-30-2000

  1. Exchange 2000: Support Exchange 2000 (release candidate 2). With this new version UserManagemeNT supports both Exchange 5.0, 5.5 and the new version Exchange 2000. See Microsoft Exchange 2000 for more information (1772, 08-28-2000).

  2. Windows 2000 – Active Directory: When searching for domains in the domain forest, UserManagemeNT now contacts the global catalog in order to find all domains of the forest (1773, 09-05-2000).

  3. Windows 2000 – Active Directory: When adding users to global groups in Windows 2000 – Active Directory, UserManagemeNT will no longer use the Windows 2000 server that has the FSMO role of PDC Advertiser (PDC Emulator) (1777,10-06-2000).

  4. Create user: When creating users with UserManagemeNT Professional or UserManagemeNT Import, you can also set permissions of the user profile directory. (1782, 11-30-2000)

  5. Create user: You can add user accounts to domain- or server- local groups by using a special syntax to specify the local group. See Adding users to local groups for more information (11-29-2000).

  6. Move users’ resources: When moving users’ resources, you can now change the primary group of one or more users by selecting a user template that contains the new primary group (1777,10-06-2000).

  7. Import: When importing in Windows NT 4, you can now update the user account SAM and Active Directory settings for existing user accounts (1777,10-06-2000).

  8. Import: The license policy for UserManagemeNT has been changed. See UserManagemeNT modules and licenses for more information (1777,10-06-2000).

  9. Import: When updating existing Windows 2000 user accounts with UserManagemeNT Import, you can now use the keyword %USERNAME% when the username field is specified in the import file (1782, 11-30-2000).

  10. Delegation: The algorithm to create unique usernames is updated to accommodate at least 40 unique usernames for users with identical full names (1777,10-06-2000).

  11. Delegation: More extended logging information is available if the UserManagemeNT Delegation service fails to find member of global groups subject to delegated access rights (1777,10-06-2000).

  12. Delegation: Delegated users are allowed to unlock the account of members of the Administrators group. In previous version, all operations were blocked for delegated users when the user account was a member of the Administrators group (1782, 11-30-2000).

  13. Exchange 5.x: The Exchange server name specified in the user templates can contain keywords (1777,10-06-2000).

  14. General: Some options regarding the position of the main UserManagemeNT GUI window are now processed correctly. In previous version, it was possible to maximize the GUI window (1777,10-06-2000).

 

Version 5.2, Build 1767, Release date 08-07-2000

  1. Delegation: Supports the delegation of service management. Assigned users can start and stop services on specified servers (1765, 07-21-2000).

  2. Delegation: The Manage Passwords tab is much more configurable. Administrators can specify that certain options, for instance User Much Change Password at Next Logon, are enable but not selectable, cannot be changed, or are not shown at all. See Configure task: Manage passwords for more information (1765, 07-21-2000).

  3. Delegation: When creating user accounts, delegated users can select and use Units, Unit locations, Departments and Job titles, even when the user has no access to any group of the item (1765, 07-21-2000).

  4. Delegation: When an action, initiated by a delegated user fails for some reason, you can let the UserManagemeNT Delegation service send a message to the client. See Delegation service settings for more information (1765, 07-21-2000).

  5. Delegation: When removing user accounts with UserManagemeNT Delegation, the license code is now checked correctly (1766, 07-26-2000).

  6. Import: When updating user attributes in the Active Directory, the Full Name is now correctly interpreted (1767, 08-07-2000).

  7. General: When using custom keywords, these keywords are added to the various drop-down lists in the UserManagemeNT user interface application (1765, 07-21-2000).

  8. General: In the user templates configuration dialog, the window showing user template names contains a horizontal scrollbar when necessary (1765, 07-21-2000).

  9. Remove user: The Disable account option can now be selected and deselected (1767, 08-07-2000).

  10. Windows 2000 - Active Directory, fix: creating user accounts with a password and the option User Must Change Password at Next Logon (1765, 07-21-2000).

  11. Move user, fix: Removing the original home directory when moving the home directory to another server (1765, 07-21-2000).

 

Version 5.1, Build 1762, Release date 06-28-2000

  1. Windows 2000 – Active Directory – Import: Supports the import of user accounts into the Active Directory (1760, 05-16-2000).

  2. Import: The options to create and specify the user profile path and home directory are now also supported in the import module of UserManagemeNT (1760, 05-16-2000).

  3. Import: When importing user accounts in the Active Directory without specifying a full name, UserManagemeNT Import will now generate the full name which is a required attribute to create an user account in the Active Directory (1761, 06-16-2000).

  4. Delegation: When running the UserManagemeNT Delegation client, the user no longer needs the access rights to change the registry settings in HKLM\.. (1760, 05-16-2000).

  5. Delegation: When creating user accounts with the same name from different UserManagemeNT delegation clients, unique names are now correctly generated. Further the group membership settings for the new user accounts are correct and the delegation service continues to respond to new requests (1761, 06-16-2000).

  6. Delegation: The Move users' resources and Remove user configuration task settings are now correctly stored and reloaded from the delegation service (1761, 06-16-2000).

  7. Delegation: The user properties (full name, enabled/disabled) are now updated correctly (1761, 06-16-2000).

  8. General: The status of the option to specify that user information must be obtained from the primary domain controller is now correctly saved in the UserManagemeNT configuration files (1760, 05-16-2000).

  9. General: Minor documentation errors in the online help are corrected (1760, 05-16-2000).

  10. General: When the UserManagemeNT data files are installed on a shared network drive, you can now correctly upgrade from UserManagemeNT 4.3, build 1732. In previous versions (< build 1762), UserManagemeNT failed to read the configuration files (1762, 06-28-2000).

 

Version 5.0, Build 1753, Release date 04-05-2000

  1. Delegation: Supports the removal of user accounts and associated resources with delegated administrative access (1752, 03-29-2000).

  2. Delegation: Supports the ability to select multiple entries when configuring the objects with delegated administrative access (1752, 03-29-2000).

  3. Delegation: Supports more granular administrative access rights to unlock user accounts and reset passwords (1752, 03-29-2000).

  4. Active directory: The NETBIOS name of domains in a mixed-mode configuration is now correctly found (1752, 03-29-2000).

  5. Create user: Supports the expiration date of user accounts.

  6. Move user: Supports the execution of a command line when moving the resources of a user account (1752, 03-29-2000).

  7. Remove user: Supports the execution of a command line when removing a user account and associated resources (1752, 03-29-2000).

  8. General: When searching for user accounts in the multiple user selection dialog, the search is now case-insensitive (1752, 03-29-2000).

  9. General: When selecting user accounts in the multiple user selection dialog, an incidental crash problem will no longer occur (1752, 03-29-2000).

  10. General: Fix: With a network installation, UserManagemeNT shows all network users for concurrent sessions (1753, 04-05-2000).

  11. General: Fix: When selecting user templates, the groups associated with the selected are selected as specified (1753, 04-05-2000).

 

Version 5.0, Build 1745, Release date 03-09-2000

  1. Windows 2000, Active Directory support: The version supports both Windows 2000 and Active Directory. User accounts can be created in the Active Directory, in any domain, organizational unit or other container. See Active Directory and Windows 2000 for more information (1744, 03-06-2000).

  2. Create user: A customizable extra window is introduced to specify additional attributes and properties for new user accounts (1744, 03-06-2000).

  3. Create user: Support to create the profile directory of a new user account (1744, 03-06-2000).

  4. Create user: When creating user accounts, you can specify if the home directory and user profile directory are specified or created or both specified and created (1744, 03-06-2000).

  5. Create user: You can specify the primary group of new user accounts (1744, 03-06-2000).

  6. Delegation: New functionality is available to manage computer accounts. With the UserManagemeNT command line interface you can create and delete computer accounts. See Command line interface and Managing computer accounts for more information (1744, 03-06-2000).

  7. Command line interface: The command line interface for the UserManagemeNT Delegation service is now available. With the interface you can manage computer accounts and reset passwords (1744, 03-06-2000).

  8. Import: You can use a new ‘status’-field when importing from a text file. This field is written to the export file. See Export file for more information (1744, 03-06-2000).

  9. DAO: UserManagemeNT no longer uses the Jet database engine (DAO). The database software required downloading significantly more software when downloading UserManagemeNT. Further, the DAO software was not thread-safe causing undesirable delays when using UserManagemeNT, for instance when domain user information is collected. The change results in a smaller software packages and faster response with no loss of functionality. For more information, see Upgrading UserManagemeNT and UserManagemeNT software (1744, 03-06-2000).

  10. Licensing: A license code evaluation problem in version 5.0, build 1744 is fixed. The evaluation of the number of users in the network and the number of licensed users was not correct in this version (1745, 03-09-2000).

  11. General: The content of the message that is shown when the computer on which UserManagemeNT is started does not support Active Directory has been changed (1745, 03-09-2000).

 

Version 4.3, Build 1732, Release date 12-30-1999

  1. Terminal server support: Support of Windows Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame. You can now specify all terminal server settings for new and existing accounts. Supported in UserManagemeNT Professional, Import and Delegation. See Terminal Server for more information.

  2. Import: A new option is introduced to change properties of computer accounts. These accounts do not necessarily have to be domain accounts. See Importing: Example 4, Changing password of multiple workstation accounts for more information.

 

Version 4.2, Build 1731, Release date 12-10-1999

  1. Delegation: Support of Windows 95 and Windows 98: You can now install and run the UserManagemeNT Delegation client on Windows 95 and Windows 98 workstations (build 1729, 12-03-1999).

  2. Delegation: When installing the UserManagemeNT Delegation service, the default service account is specified as an account from the same domain as the currently logged on user workstations (build 1729, 12-03-1999).

  3. Delegation: When installing the UserManagemeNT Delegation service, the setup program checks if the currently logged on user is a member of the specified Administrative group. If not, a message is displayed and the user is asked to change the group name workstations (build 1729, 12-03-1999).

  4. Delegation: When specifying the delegation server, you can both use the syntax \\SERVERNAME and SERVERNAME. In previous versions, only the last syntax was working properly.

  5. Delegation: When running as a delegation client, it is no longer required to have any Exchange software installed on the client workstations (build 1729, 12-03-1999).

  6. Network installation: When installing UserManagemeNT, you can choose to install a network version . Multiple clients can share the configuration information from a share locations (build 1731, 12-07-1999).

  7. Logging option: You can use a command line option to generate more logging information in a log file (build 1731, 12-07-1999).

  8. General: When browsing in the network environment, the network type Client Access Network is not selected as the Microsoft Windows Network.

 

Version 4.1, Build 1727, Release date 11-24-1999

  1. Delegation: When upgrading a network installation version of UserManagemeNT, all user templates and configuration information is correctly upgraded (build 1727, 11-24-1999)

  2. Delegation: When multiple domains are managed with UserManagemeNT Delegation, and users with delegated administrative access rights have access rights for certain domains only, the correct domains are now displayed in the UserManagemeNT Delegation client windows (build 1726, 11-23-1999).

 

Version 4.1, Build 1725, Release date 11-22-1999

  1. Delegation: With UserManagemeNT Delegation, users that have no administrative access to manage user accounts can get delegated access rights to fulfill specific administrative tasks. For instance, a user account that is not a member of any administrative group (Administrators, Account operators) can be granted the permission to reset passwords of certain users only.

  2. Create user: When the UserManagemeNT application is not able to create the home directory of a new user account a more descriptive error message is generated.

  3. Import: The description in the import log file of the actions executed for each imported line is now correct.

  4. Import: The specification of various items is handled correct, also when the import view window is not shown.

 

Version 3.4, Build 1703, Release date 6-4-1999

  1. Import: Supports migration for domain reconfiguration and migration from other network operating systems to Windows NT.

  2. General: The UserManagemeNT setup allows you to setup a network installation of UserManagemeNT. With a network installation, different workstations can share the configuration information of UserManagemeNT. Also, more documentation is available that described how to convert from a stand-alone installation to a network installation.

  3. General: A bug is fixed regarding the group configuration in units, departments and locations. In previous releases, the global group configuration was lost when the user changed the domains managed by UserManagemeNT. This is fixed.

  4. Remove user: UserManagemeNT now supports the deletion of files and directories in the home directory with the attribute read-only set. In previous release an error occurred when UserManagemeNT tried to delete the file or directory.

 

Version 3.3, Build 1702, Release date 5-28-1999

  1. Search permissions: Support printing the results of the search permission operation. See Search Permissions and Printing reports for more information.

 

Version 3.3, Build 1701, Release date 5-21-1999

  1. Search permissions: Support search permissions functionality. You can now find the permissions granted to specified users on files and directories. See Search Permissions for more information.

 

Version 3.2, Build 1700, Release date 5-7-1999

  1. Create user: Two options to control the Create user tab are added. When these options are enabled, you must select a user template and a home server when a user is created. See Configure task: Create user for more information.

  2. Remove user: A problem causing the error "Error 5, access denied" when removing home directories is fixed. The problem is fixed by using the "Backup" and "Restore" privileges granted to the logged on user.

  3. Remove user: When Exchange mailboxes are deleted, but no Exchange recipient container is specified, UserManagemeNT will prompt you to do so automatically.

  4. General: Several bugs that occurred using the keyword %DEPARTMENT% have been fixed. The keyword is now supported when importing users and the import file contains a specification of the field "Department" (1), or the value is obtained through the general template (2), or when the value is used with the Move users’ recourses operation (3).

  5. General: When multiple tasks are initiated, all tasks will be executed properly. In previous versions of UserManagemeNT, is was possible that a single or several tasks were not executed. When the user terminated the UserManagemeNT application, a message showed that these tasks were still pending. Unfortunately, they were never executed.

  6. Exchange: When configuring attributes in user templates for Exchange mailboxes, new attributes are inserted at the end of the attribute list, not at the beginning.

  7. Exchange: A debug option is implemented: If UserManagemeNT is started with the /DEBUG option in the command line, the main log tab shows all recipients and associated Windows NT accounts when recipient containers are evaluated.

  8. Permissions: The permission specification No Access is now used in the correct order in all cases. (In Access Control Lists for home directories and files, this permission cannot be preceded by permission granting access. This was not always the case with previous versions of UserManagemeNT).

  9. WWW-update: Periodically, UserManagemeNT will contact the WWW-site http://www.tools4ever.com to check if a new version is available. See WWW update information for more information.

 

Version 3.1, Build 1698, Release date 4-16-1999

  1. New: The main tab Remove user is implemented. With Remove user you can remove user accounts, home directories, global group membership and Exchange mailboxes.

  2. Move: The keywords %DEPARTMENT%, %OU%, and %OU_LOCATION% are interpreted correctly when these keywords are used for instance in the description of a user.

  3. Member servers: UserManagemeNT support the specification of server related objects. For instance when you want to specify a permission entry for a local group on a member server (non domain controller), this group can be specified as \\ServerName\LocalGroupName. These server related objects must be specified by using the servername starting with a double backslash (\\ServerName).

  4. Username generation: When "Custom username generation" is used, and the "Username format string" ended with %, which is not a correct specification, the UserManagemeNT application ended in an endless loop when a name was made unique. This is fixed.

  5. Import: The option "Password expired", specified as "Yes" or "No" in the import file or obtained from the General settings is now interpreted correctly.

  6. Import: The keywords %FIRST_NAME%, %INITIALS% and %LAST_NAME% can now be used if these are not used to compose the username itself. This is for instance the case, if the username is specified directly in the import file.

  7. General: The number of supported user templates is increased. In previous versions the number of templates was restricted to about 30 templates, depending on the name of the profile and associated template filenames. This is increased to 600 user templates.

  8. Exchange: UserManagemeNT can now check if a mailbox with the same name already exists when you want to create a new mailbox. See Configure task: Exchange for more information.

 

Version 3.0, Build 1694, Release date 2-26-1999

  1. Import: The keywords %DEPARTMENT%, %OU%, and %OU_LOCATION% are supported when these keywords are specified in import files.

  2. General: The name of the domain controller in a one-server-network is now correct.

  3. General: The license information displayed in the main window is correct. If you purchased the Professional and Import version, the main window license information contained the word Professional only.

 

Version 3.0, Build 1693, Release date 2-25-1999

  1. New: The main tab Move users’ resources is implemented. With Move users’ resources you can move home directories, change global group membership and so on.

  2. Keywords: The support of keywords is extended. You can specify the number of characters that must be copied (from the value replacing the keyword) into the destination character string.

  3. Exchange: New Exchange mailboxes are correctly added to Exchange distribution lists. In previous release a problem occurred when the new mailbox and the distribution lists did not belong to the same Exchange container.

  4. Exchange: Exchange attributes can be imported directly from the import file into the Exchange directory. See Importing Exchange attributes for more information.

  5. Import: The export file, generated while you are importing data, can contain the assigned fields and the values from the import file.

  6. Import: With UserManagemeNT Import, the contents of the field rest-of-line shown in the import view was not correct if the previous field contents was enclosed in quotes ("). This is fixed and had no influence on the import process itself.

  7. Import: When tabs are used in the import file, multiple consecutive tabs (empty fields) are now correctly interpreted.

  8. Import: You can specify the name of the unit of a user. The is used to specify the global groups of which the user must become member.

  9. Group: When the operation to add a user is to a global group fails when the user is already a member of the group, no error message is generated.

 

Version 2.1, Build 1682, Release date 1-8-1999

  1. The UserManagemeNT setup file UM.INI is not overwritten when upgrading the UserManagemeNT software.

  2. Global groups can be assigned to multiple units, departments and locations within units. See Configuring groups for more information.

  3. Support of custom username generation . You can completely specify the algorithm used to generate the username from the full name.

  4. The run command is correctly executed when importing users.

  5. The permissions for Exchange mailboxes are set properly. This might have caused problems in previous releases when the user tried to access the mailbox.

 

Version 2.0, Build 1678, Release date 11-23-1998

  1. Support of import functionality.

  2. Local groups can now be added to the access control lists for home directories and shares. An error occurred in previous releases.

  3. Another method to generate the username from the full name was introduced: The 3-part name John van der Meulen is converted into username vanderMeulenJ.

  4. The %DEPARTMENT% keyword is now correctly inserted.

 

Version 1.1, Build 1673, Release date 10-19-1998

  1. Support of Microsoft Exchange Server to create Exchange mailboxes when new users are added.

  2. If you configure the groups for units, locations and departments, you can also create new groups if you specify a group that does not exist.

  3. A new method to create the username from a full name is added.

  4. A minimize button is added to the main window of UserManagemeNT to be able to minimize the application.

Version 1.0, Build 1672, Release date 10-09-1998

First, original release.

 

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