AD Web
Web Based Active Directory Management
AD Web (Active Directory Web) is a web based AD management tool that let’s your administrator manage all Active Directory tasks such as User creation, Password Reset, Unlock users and more using a Web based interface. The web application let you reduce the need of opening your AD/Domain controller servers and thus prevent your network from accidental shutdown, interruption or any wrong configurations.
Active Directory Web (AD Web) is not just to help your administrator where it can also help your users to manage their password, profile, Forgotten Password Reset and more. Using AD Web, you can perform Bulk Actions like User Creation, deletion, unlock and password reset. You can also notify users via email on each event which are some features not available with regular AD management Console. The below are the key features that AD Web includes but not limited. We can also customize and add more features if you have a specific requirement.
Features of AD Web
Manage Users
Manage Multiple AD Domains
Manage unlimited Active Directory Domains at one interface. You can add/edit or delete AD Domains at any time from the admin menu. You can also switch any domain as primary domain and super admin group from Domains menu. You can connect your AD domain using plain, SSL and TLS protocols as per your preference. For each domain you can configure specific groups for Portal and OU Admins. All your AD domains will appear in a clean tree view in dashboard so you can manage all at one place.
Explorer View
The Explorer Tree View lets you have a clear look of your multiple domains and OUs belong to them that is just similar to how Active Directory management console looks. In addition, the right panel separates the Users, Groups and OUs in Tabbed interface which gives you more clear view of the objects inside each OU. The tree child level is unlimited so you can keep going based on your Sub OUs without any performance issue.
Password Reset by Admin
Admin can Reset the password of individual users or can select multiple and perform a bulk action. There are 2 approaches where admin can choose one of theme. One is, you generate password or let the system generate a random one and send to users. You can always check the box Force Password change at next login which will force users to reset his password again on AD Web or any other systems he login, just like how AD default works. Another approach is sending Reset link via email to users. In this method users will receive randomly generated Reset Link that they can use to reset their own password, just like how forgot password works.
Unlock Users
The users with locked status will be displayed on Grid where admin can unlock them by simply clicking a button. An email can also be sent to user intimating their status upon unlocking. Admin can also unlock multiple users at once by selecting the checkboxes in grid and using the bulk action dropdown.
Search
The search box makes admin to find Users, Groups and OUs easily by searching through any fields under the grid (Ex: name, UPN, Display Name or email id). The search is a full text search which can pull up the results like a flash. This intuitive search feature can greatly help administrators to find AD objects very quickly and appropriately.
Admin Roles
The admin roles are very useful when you want to give some users access to specific AD domain or OU. For example if you want to allow your clients to manage their users themselves or if you want to setup administrators per department then it is possible.
Super Admin: The super user group who can access all active directory domains without any access restriction.
Domain Admin: The domain admin can manage a specific AD domain that he belongs too.
OU Admin: OU Admin group can manage all users, groups and Sub OUs of the OU he belongs too.
Both Domain Admin and OU Admin can be restricted with access rights from Admin module by Super Admin.
Forgot Password by User
This module is common for all users including non-admin users. You can link to this module from anywhere (Ex: in your RD web login page). User lands to this link and validates his credential using his email id and username. If both are correct according to AD then he will be sent an email with a link for resetting his password. The link will expire in set (ex: 60) minutes, also the link can be used only once. User can use the link to reset his password without need of the old password. He will then be sent an email confirming his password reset. From the admin menu you can configure either user needs email id and username of only the username or only the email. You also can configure the link expiration time from admin menu.
Edit Profile
It is alike a self-service portal where user can login and edit his Active Directory profile as well do a Password Reset. User can also use Forgot Password feature to recover his password. All these settings can be controlled from admin menu. For example, if you don’t want to allow profile edit or reset password then you can just disable it from your admin >> settings menu.
Email Templates
Set your email delivery via SMTP, Xauth using Office 365 or Google Oauth as you wish. You can also customize all email templates including new user creation, forgot password reset, User unlocked email etc. This will be a HTML editor with short code features so you can flexibly make it as you wish. For example, Hallo {display-name} or Hallo {sam-name} etc. You can also control which event should notified by email and which event should not. Example, you may like to send email during new user creation or password reset but you may not like to send email when user is unlocked. You have complete control over it.