Automated Active Directory User Account Management

Almost 40% of a network administrator's time is spent on user account management activities such as enabling, or disabling, or moving, or deleting user accounts. Adding to this is password reset and account-unlock tasks. Thus it is a wise choice to automate Active Directory user account management.

Automated User Account Management from ADManager Plus

With the help of a review-approve system, ADManager Plus offers a controlled automation of Active Directory user account management: for selected actions including enable/ disable/ move/ delete users and also for password reset and account unlock activities.

What's Workflow?

Approval Workflow is a linear hierarchy which defines who reviews the process and who approves it. Workflow available in ADManager Plus is configurable, wherein you can define various levels of pit stops for the automated process, where the process could be perused before proceeding.

The Automation:

In any given day, an administrator may come across various kinds of circumstances, such as:

• Disabling all inactive user or computer accounts.
• Deleting all disabled user or computer accounts.
• Disabling accounts of users who never logged on.
• Deleting all the groups which have no members.
• Reset passwords for all user accounts whose passwords are about to expire and force them to change passwords
• Moving all users without logon scripts to a new OU in order to set up a logon script for them.

If you look at these scenarios, the basic Active Directory operation is about the same - move, disable, enable, delete. However, every scenario sends the administrator chasing after a new set of user accounts on which these operations can be performed.

So, it's understandable that when it comes to automating Active Directory user account management, the key is to offer pre-built scenarios to choose user accounts on which these actions can be performed.

That's the reason ADManager Plus provides a wide array of pre-built scenarios to pull out user accounts on which these Active Directory tasks could be performed. Take a look at the following automator and the library of criteria to select user accounts:

To select the type of accounts that you should work on, you can use the library:

This allows you a great deal of freedom, which allows you to automate oft-repeated to "situation may arise" kind of Active Directory tasks.

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