Active Directory Automation

You are not the only one dreaming about automating Active Directory management! Every network administrator would have contemplated - at least once in their lifetime - on how to automate common Active Directory tasks, especially user account creation / provisioning and de-provisioning! Most of the Active Directory tasks are often repetitive and time-consuming, so automating them does a world of good to the enterprise, in terms of time saved and standards achieved.

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We invite you to try ADManager Plus for free and see what it can do for your Active Directory automation needs.

3 things are worth your attention:

• Review-Approval Workflow for controlled automation.
• Automated and Template-controlled user provisioning.
• Automated User Account Management with the help of prebuilt actions.

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AD automation: The ADManager Plus approach

The Active Directory automation that ADManager Plus offers satisfies both the supporters of Active Directory automation and its naysayers. It automates Active Directory tasks without taking the control out of humans by way of a customizable approval-based workflow system. Through this system, you can define who should review an automated process and who should approve it, enabling you to stay in complete control of Active Directory automation, especially at crucial and attention-requiring intervals. (More on Workflow...) Moreover, you can set Email and SMS alerts to notify users about the execution of any automated task.

Automate 14 crucial Active Directory tasks and choose from 100 prebuilt actions

ADManager Plus identifies 14 crucial and oft-repeated Active Directory task spread across 4 different categories (User Creation, User modification, Group Modification, Computer and Contact Management) and offers controlled automation for them.

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• Automate Active Directory User Account Creation / Provisioning
• Automate Active Directory User Account Modification (esp. AD Clean-Up)
• Automate Active Directory Computer Account Management
• Automate Active Directory Group Management
• Automate Active Directory Contact Modification

The X factors of ADManager Plus' Active Directory automation

You will find two aspects to ADManager Plus Active Directory Automation to be very alluring. They are:

• Automated & Template Controlled User Creation / Provisioning
• Prebuilt Actions and Active Directory Scenario Automation

Automated and template-controlled user creation and provisioning

There are a few aspects of ADManager Plus automated user provisioning that are worth paying attention to:

Approval workflow : Allows you to implement a review-approve process over the automation.	Offers a good measure of control over the Active Directory automation process.
Template-controlled provisioning: Save all the user account configurations, such as mailbox rights, LCS/OCS properties, etc., as templates and reuse them whenever necessary.	You don't have to scurry between AD and Exchange server or between AD and LCS/OCS snap-ins for property configuration. This method of user provisioning is real quick and time-saving.
Reactive naming format: ADManager Plus allows you to define reactive naming formats, which improvises names with whatever data is provided in CSV.	In a CSV-based user provisioning operation, a naming operation can go awry (and sometimes account creation itself), if mandatory fields are missing values.

Integrate with HRMS apps and databases

User management is a never-ending process, and more often than not, IT administrators have to count on HR to perform any user management activity. With ADManager Plus' integration and automation capabilities, you can integrate ADManager Plus with human resource management systems (Zoho People, UltiPro, and BambooHR) and external databases (MS SQL and Oracle Database), automate user management tasks in a flash, and sit back and relax.

Besides user provisioning, HRMS-based automations also detect deleted or modified user accounts and update them in your AD. You can choose to process data records in HRMS apps or databases fully or incrementally.

Integrate ADManager Plus with databases and perform the following tasks in a jiffy:

• Provision, modify, and deprovision user accounts.
• Configure auto-reply, disable Skype for Business or Lync, delete the home folder, move the home folder, manage user photos, hide recipients from Exchange address lists, disable or delete mailbox actions, and perform more actions on user accounts in your Active Directory.

Automate predefined AD tasks

Be it any kind of enterprise, there would be a set of common Active Directory actions to be performed on user and computer accounts. For example:

• Move computer accounts from Computer container to appropriate OUs.
• Track inactive user accounts and disable them.
• Find locked-out user accounts and unlock them.
• Trace out users with soon-to-expire passwords, reset passwords for them, and force them to change passwords at next logon.

Basically, it is all about picking out a set of accounts (as needed by the situation at hand) and performing some action (move, or disable, or delete, or reset password, etc.) on them.

ADManager Plus prepackages these actions and scenarios for you and lets you automate them.

Share automations with technicians

ADManager Plus allows the help desk technician or administrator to share the Automation with any help-desk technician or all the help desk technicians configured. By doing so, the technicians with whom the automations are shared will be able to copy or execute them.

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