One of the most important and powerful reasons that organizations consider Active Directory is the fact that delegation is built into the product. Windows NT...
Safely Delegating Password Reset Capability in Active Directory
I have been preaching for years about how powerful Active Directory is in the ability to delegate control over certain tasks and certain objects in...
Automating Inactive User Controls
With so many compliance regulations requiring controls over inactive users, it is important to ensure that these user accounts in Active Directory are correctly managed....
ADManager Plus: How to Modify Exchange’s Outgoing Mail Attachment Size
The project is tight. Time is of the essence. Reports must be completed and reviewed by end of day. Sue, the lead on the project,...
Find Computers Based on Operating System
As Microsoft rolls through its operating systems, the company continually stops support for older operating systems. This means that organizations are forced to pay a...
Find and Delete “Never Used” User Accounts
Every Active Directory installation has one common issue. Every installation has one or more users that were created for a project, new employee, returning employee,...
Unveiling your Active Directory delegations
Ever since Microsoft released Active Directory in 2000, there has been an option referred to as “delegation.” The term is pretty familiar now, but then...
ADManager Plus: Creating Users in Bulk by Importing a CSV File
It is extremely common for a company to hire employees in mass. It might be a school with a new school year, a corporation hiring...