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ADManager Plus

Active Directory Management & Reporting

ADManager Plus simplifies enterprise-wide Windows Active Directory management and reporting.
 
Success Stories
"We evaluated ADManager Plus along with several other Active Directory Management and Reporting software. After using it really made life easy for administrators. It is very understandable and fast to learn."
-Bogdan Campeanu, Network Engineer » More Success Stories
 
Active Directory Help Desk Delegation (FAQ)

What is Help Desk Delegation?

This feature helps administrators to assign or delegate selected activities to non-administrative desk users. It is recommended top delegate non-core administrator activities to help desk users.

What is Help Desk User?
A person who is entitled to perform the operations delegated by the administrator is called help desk user. These operations can deviate from the regular end user functions with a bias of administrative tasks aimed to increase the productivity and reduce administrator’s workload.

What is Help Desk Role?
A specific role or a set of roles that are delegated by administrator to a unique non administrative user to perform are called help desk roles.

How help desk delegation helps me?
Help Desk delegation helps in disseminating the workload from administrator’s desk. It reduces the burden on administrator there by allowing him to concentrate on core admin activities.
It increases the productivity of users by eliminating administrator's intervention in self-manageable activities.

What is the scope of delegation?
Administrator can limit the scope of delegated activities by his wish. He can limit the users to a specific organizational units or a part of organizational unit.

What about security?
Help desk delegation is delivered with a security shield. All the actions performed by help desk users will be in the purview defined, enabling security settings intact. To prevent security breach the users and their activities are fenced to a specific party of Active Directory and enforced authentication zeroes security pitfalls.

Work Flow for Help Desk Delegation: The core functional theme of Help Desk Delegation is that the user can login to the ADMP console and perform the functions delegated by Administrator.

Granular Authorization: Administrator can restrict the help desk users function to a specific part of OU or to specific attributes in a function.
Example: Help desk users can be allowed to modify Group attributes at the same time restricting or avoiding them to any of the sub functions like ‘add to group’ or ‘remove from group’ or ‘set primary group’.

OU Restriction: All the functions that are being performed by help desk users can be restricted to specific OU’s. This enhances the security of Active Directory by authorization. 

Help desk Implementation Scenario's:
HR Department in your organization need not wait long time to confirm that the newly joined employees are enrolled on to the active directory users list. Help Desk Delegation allows administrator to grant rights to the HR People to create new user accounts soon a person is recruited, there by saving the time of both departments and enhancing productivity.

Other features

Active Directory Reset Password
Resetting expired, forgotten or compromised passwords is a everyday work for Administrators. ADManager Plus has an in-built dedicated feature aimed at reducing this manual work

Cleanup your Active Directory by Removing unused user accounts
Over time, user and computer accounts become obsolete and needs elimination. ADManager Plus helps you to trace out all inactive, disabled, account-expired users and computers in Active Directory.

Give restricted access to help desk and IT staff to manage AD users and objects
The administrator can create a login for the HR personnel with the permission to create new users in the Active Directory. The HR personnel can login and access only the delegated task of creating new users

Active Directory bulk user modification
ADManager Plus allows bulk modification of user attributes, including the Exchange and Terminal Services attributes. Common modifications, such as resetting password, changing the display name, creating mailbox, moving users between OUs.

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Active Directory Management & Reporting