Self-service Active Directory update

Creating and updating user information frequently, especially in organizations with hundreds or thousands of employees, is a tedious and time-consuming task for IT administrators. Empowering users to update their own attribute information in Active Directory not only saves time and effort for IT administrators, but it also ensures that accurate and up-to-date details are entered by users.

ADSelfService Plus, with its self-service Active Directory update feature, lets end users update their own information in Active Directory. ADSelfService Plus offers a customizable drag-and-drop web interface, allowing administrators to easily build a self-update form to collect profile information from users.

Self-service Active Directory update features in ADSelfService Plus

• Drag-and-drop form builder

  Easily build an interface by dragging and dropping the required sections in which users can update their Active Directory information.

• Modification rules

  These rules help administrators specify the fields that need to be automatically modified when a corresponding Active Directory attribute is updated by the user. This is helpful when users' titles change. For example, if an HR employee moves into accounting, and they update their Active Directory attribute corresponding to the job title, then their department field will automatically be modified to Finance.

• Profile photo update

  Allow end users to update their profile photos in Active Directory.

• Instant custom attributes

  When default attributes supplied by Active Directory are not sufficient, administrators can create custom attributes like start date or years of experience.

• Corporate directory search

  Allow users to search for their colleagues' information by enabling employee search.

• Mandate user input

  Force users to update important fields by marking them as mandatory.

• Subliminal hints

  Offer hints on how to fill in data right in the textboxes or offer help cards.

Benefits of self-service Active Directory update

• Administrators can choose from a wide range of form elements and construct a self-update form through which they can absolutely control, manage, and regulate user input.
• Administrators have a provision to construct pre-populated textboxes, default value-loaded drop-downs, or radio buttons to render user input accurate and uniform.
• Multiple self-update forms can be created and assigned for different sets of users, based on their domain, OU, and group membership with different sets of Active Directory attributes to fill.
• Empowering users to self-update their Active Directory information will ensure that the latest information about users is available.

With ADSelfService Plus' self-service Active Directory update feature, users can update their own information, ensuring administrators' technical expertise is not wasted on clerical activities such as updating users' contact information in Active Directory.