How a Web Based Active Directory Management tool (AD Web) can improve your AD Administration
Active Directory is a preliminary infrastructure for many organizations from small to enterprise. It provides a centralized user management with privileged access control. While it has great features and security, a web based utility can enhance the management of it. There are many situations where a Web based Active Directory Management can help you streamline the process. These are few occasions why AD Web type of web management tool is important for you.
- Manage your Active Directory without logging into the Active Directory server.
- Manage from Anywhere. No need to stay at your network.
- To quickly unlock a user while on go.
- You want to give restricted access to other administrators but don’t want to allow them to touch your AD server.
- You are hosting your clients and want to give them access to manage their users themselves.
- You may want to allow users for self-management such as Forgotten Password Reset, Password expiry notification, change profile info etc.
- May like to streamline the process through an automated email notification system.
- And more…
These are some use cases but there are lot of benefits around a proper web based AD management tool and here is where AD Web comes around. Here are few key notes about the AD Web features but there are more you can do.
- Use any domain as UPN (User Principal Name) (Ex: [email protected]).
- Manage multiple Active Directory Domains at one place.
- Bulk Users Creation with minimal effort.
- User Import and Export.
- Intuitive full text search to find users, OUs and Groups quickly.
- Useful Email notifications during User Creation, Forgot Password, Unlock, enable/disable Users and more.
- Schedule unlimited Password Expiry Notifications for both expiring and expired passwords.
- Customizable Email Templates.
- Privileged access using Domain admin and OU Admin roles.
- User Self-Management for Password Reset, Forgot Password, Profile update etc.
- Easy to customize the interface with your logo, colors etc. Create unlimited themes.
- Unlimited Portal Brandings mapping to themes with URL.
- Responsive to all devices including Mobile browsers.