Migrate data only, not configuration
I am looking to migrate data only from one server to another. The only thing is, is I don't want the configuration of the old server to overwrite the new server. It's been re-worked the way we need it to be. Thank you, Tom
AD Manager and incremental usernames
Hello, I'm testing out ADManager plus and considering buying it to manage our Active Directory. We have an organization of over 1200 users. Our username format is HNxxxxx where the xxxxx are random numbers, e.g. a username could be HN10111. Can this be done automatically so when one of our AD administrators creates a new user, AD Manager Plus will figure out the username by it self without us "interfering"? Best regards
Use-case: Copy settings of an existing Template and creating a new Template
Instead of creating a template from scratch, ADManager Plus offers you the option to copy the settings of an existing template and then make any desired changes to it. Follow the steps given below to copy a template. Note: These are the basic steps required to copy any template, taking user modification template as example. To copy another type of template, select that option (e.g., user creation template) instead of user modification template, wherever applicable. Step 1: Go to AD Mgmt --> User
ManageEngine AD Seminars - Coming to the UK in February & March (Edinburgh & London)
Just a quick heads up to all the UK based users of ManageEngine AD Tools. Seminars are scheduled to take place in Edinburgh & London (27th February & 2nd March) These seminars will be an opportunity to... Learn about the next-gen AD management trends and techniques Know how to configure and monitor the critical security setting of your AD environment Know about constructing email alerts, to be notified about changes to key security settings Consult with our AD experts. Discuss your Active Directory
ADManager Plus adds a new report exclusively for listing the members of Office 365 groups.
In the latest build, ADManager Plus has added a new member to its family of predefined Office 365 reports. With the new Office 365 group members report, you can generate the list of all users who are members of the selected group/groups in your Office 365 environment. This report, along with the other Office 365 group reports of ADManager Plus—all groups, security groups, and distribution groups—provides complete visibility into your Office 365 groups' environment. ManageEngine ADSolutions Team Direct
ADManager Plus now extends support for Windows Server 2016.
ADManager Plus now extends support for Windows Server 2016 by allowing users to: Install ADManager Plus on machines running Windows Server 2016. Manage Active Directory objects in Windows Server 2016 domain controllers. Manage Active Directory running on Windows Server 2016 domain and forest functional levels. Manage (enable, disable, move, and delete) and report on computers running Windows Server 2016. ManageEngine ADSolutions Team Direct : +1 408-916-9891 Toll Free : +1888-720-9500 How
[Free Webinar] Benchmark your user onboarding process through automation
User onboarding in Active Directory happens to be a nightmare for every administrator across an organization, there are a number of demanding steps an administrator must take to accurately provision a user object and there are a variety of reasons to do so. Register: https://goo.gl/fdUKW3 Presenter: Harish Sekar, Presales consultant Onboarding users shouldn’t be thought of as an activity but rather as a good measure to provide actual and enough access across Active Directory and various platforms
Schedule Reports In The Office365, Now!
ADManager Plus extends the report scheduling capabilities for Office 365 reports as well. They can now be auto-generated and emailed to desired users at the desired time intervals. You can even specify the format in which the reports should be sent—HTML, CSV, CSVDE, PDF, or XLSX. If desired, you can even store the reports in a common location to reduce email size and ensure easy accessibility. ManageEngine ADSolutions Team Direct : +1 408-916-9891 Toll Free : +1888-720-9500 How To | Forum | File
Multiple Server, Share, Home Folder selection and memberOf attribute support in 'Permission for Folders' Report.
Using the 'permissions for folders' report, you can now: - Generate results for multiple folders, shares, or servers at once. - Fetch permissions for multiple home folders.- View details of the 'members' attribute. ManageEngine ADSolutions Team Direct : +1 408-916-9891 Toll Free : +1888-720-9500 How To | Forum | File Permission Management ADManager Plus | ADAudit Plus | ADSelfService Plus | Exchange Reporter Plus | Recovery Manager Plus | AD360
Is it possible to exempt Automation tasks from the Notifications?
Currently when an automated task executes, it sends an email to the same group that receives notifications for all manual request executions. Is it possible to change this? Thanks, Daniel L.
GUI-based configuration of Exchange auto-reply settings
With purely GUI-based actions, ADManager Plus now lets you configure automatic replies for the emails sent to your users' Exchange mailboxes. You can: Enable/ disable automatic replies to senders from your organization. Enable/ disable automatic replies to senders from other organizations. Send different replies to senders from your organization and to those from other organizations. Specify the time period during which automatic replies must be sent. ManageEngine ADSolutions Team Direct : +1 408-916-9891
Copy automation
Automating a new AD task using ADManager Plus is now easier and simpler. The new 'copy automation' feature reduces the time spent in creating an automation. Instead of configuring an automation right from scratch, it allows you create a new one by just copying the settings of an existing automation, and then modifying the relevant setting alone, as per your requirement. ManageEngine ADSolutions Team Direct : +1 408-916-9891 Toll Free : +1888-720-9500 How To | Forum | File Permission Management
Support for Exchange Server 2016
Exchange Server 2016 is now supported by ADManager Plus. It enables you to create and manage mailboxes, apply policies, and also generate reports on your Exchange 2016 environment as well. ManageEngine ADSolutions Team Direct : +1 408-916-9891 Toll Free : +1888-720-9500 How To | Forum | File Permission Management ADManager Plus | ADAudit Plus | ADSelfService Plus | Exchange Reporter Plus | Recovery Manager Plus | AD360
Google Apps Reports
ADManager Plus now offers exclusive Google Apps user reports using which you can view the details about: - All Google Apps users - Active users - Suspended users ManageEngine ADSolutions Team Direct : +1 408-916-9891 Toll Free : +1888-720-9500 How To | Forum | File Permission Management ADManager Plus | ADAudit Plus | ADSelfService Plus | Exchange Reporter Plus | Recovery Manager Plus | AD360
Use-case 35: How To Identify Users That Do Not Comply Password Policies In Your Active Directory
One of the main conceptions of a highly secure environment, with a lots of GPOs interlinked and enforced, is the mental-make up of having a strong password policy. On the contrary, there is a wide-open possibility of a "password policy slip". These users can go unnoticed, unmanned for password change and undeniably open doors for threat. Some of the advantages of changing passwords, at regular intervals are, 1. Compromised employees who have been using your password cannot snoop in and remain,
Reporting
Hi, I am trying to find a report that can show me either of both of the following: 1) A list of users and which servers they have access to 2) A list of Servers and which users have access to them I can see the Compliance Reports > Server Permissions are great for the server and equally and Security Reports > Servers Accessible by Account is the other, but I need to do this for a large number of users \ servers as part of an audit and don't fancy clicking each object as there are hundreds ..... Is
How user creation templates adapt dynamically- Introducing user creation rules
ADManager Plus is a one-stop solution for Active Directory user account provisioning with simultaneous Exchange mailbox, Skype for Business, Google Apps and Office 365 account creation. While creating users through ADManager Plus, have you ever felt the need for templates to auto-fill fields based on certain conditions? Let's say, you have a template for a regional office. While provisioning users through the template, you would like the address, manager, OU container, etc., to be populated
Use-case 33: How To Manage Contract Employee In Your Active Directory Part II
On an earlier post on, How to manage contract employees(https://forums.manageengine.com/topic/use-case-16-how-to-manage-contract-employees-in-your-active-directory), we had a glimpse at how you can set account expiry dates and render the contract employee account unusable after a point in time. And what accounts work best for contract employees(https://forums.manageengine.com/topic/use-case-26-what-account-works-best-for-contract-employees-in-your-active-directory), we had two account options based
Use-case 32: How To Monitor Employee Login On A Daily Basis In Your Active Directory.
Monitoring logon activity is a great way to gauge productivity of an employee. By this we can also monitor attendance, ensure logon takes place in authorized business hours, etc. Active Directory stores logon timestamps on lastLogon and lastLogonTimestamp attrbutes. The difference between the two attributes are, lastLogon attribute stores the last time the user logged on to the domain through that specific domain controller. This is non replicating attribute. lastLogonTimestamp attribute replicates
Use-case 27: How To Delegate Permissions In The Active Directory For Users/Groups/Computers And Revoke Them Easily
Delegation is a fanta-bulous feature provided by Active Directory to assign permissions or rights over an OU or an account. Let's say we assign permission to reset passwords for all users under an OU, to another user. This delegation wizard will substantially reduce the time consumed by an IT help desk to respond for a password reset ticket, as his sidekick would share and bear the load. What are the advantages of Active Directory Delegation? Rather than adding users to a privileged group, for
Use-case 26: What Accounts Work Best For Contract Employees In Your Active Directory
To begin with, let's bring out some differences between your regular employees and your contract employees. 1. Regular employees do not come with an end-of-contract date, whereas contract employee do. 2. Regular employees would require an account on the domain to provide access over resources, whereas contract employees may not. 3. Regular employees would require a dedicated mailbox to send, receive and store emails that are exchanged within the organization, whereas an external mailbox would suffice
Use-case 25: When And How To Reset Computer Account Password In Your Active Directory
Just like user accounts, computer accounts also have passwords in the Active Directory. This password allows them to constantly communicate with the Domain Controllers, through the security channel. Information pertaining to computer account, group membership, etc. are exchanged through this secure channel. The password is changed without any user intervention once in 30 days by default, just to keep the passage secure. If the computer loses it's connectivity with the DC, owing to a few reasons like
Use-case 24: How To Isolate And Migrate Home Folders/Profile Paths Of Employees When Decommissioning File Servers In Your Active Directory
Some pain points I.T. Asset Management(ITAM) Ops deal with, is life-cycle management of servers. Especially, when there is a request for change of an out-of-date file server which was not accounted/maintained properly, during its lifetime. This causes great difficulty in validating the documents, tracking access entries to the documents and assessing the impact of retiring the server. Home folders and profile paths are Active Directory resources, which are usually associated with file servers. They
Use-case 23: How To Manage Employee Logon Restriction To Avoid Unrestricted Access To Your Active Directory.
Restricting employee logon access may be trivial. However, to any admin who believes his Active Directory holds a cove of resources, this can go a long way. Some advantages of implementing a business hour based logon are, 1. Primarily, restricting logon during non-business hours as this would prevent unauthorized or unmonitored logon. 2. Less likely chances of expecting an attack as "gaining access" to any resource is out of the question. 3. Ensuring productivity as the employee as they would have
Use-case 3: How To Standardize The Format Of Names In Various Active Directory Naming Fields While Provisioning User Accounts
A user provisioning technique that standardizes the format in attributes like sAMAccountName and userPrincipalName throughout the organization can be of help. You can link a naming format with a User Creation Template, that takes inputs from fields like first name, last name, etc. and populate the format for fields like sAMAccountName, userPrincipalName, mail, etc. A simple approach on provisioning users with this technique follows, Step 1: To create a naming format, let say "1st letter of the
Use-case 17: Securing Employee Accounts In Your Active Directory When They Are On A Holiday
Ah! The bliss of the holidays. The sense of freedom and the time when you ask yourself, "Is it a beach or a mountain?!". But, when you are on a holiday and have no track of your Active Directory account, your account is prone to be cracked and misused. As an IT Admin, the best way to handle employees, that are on vacation, is by disabling the account and sending an out-of-office email. Through the Disable Policy in ADManager Plus, you can disable the account --> move it to an OU (Holiday Employees)
Use-case 16: How To Manage Contract Employees In Your Active Directory
Contract employees are similar to your conventional employees. But what is the big fuss all about?! Your full time employees don't come with an expiry date. So what are the advantages of having an expiry date? 1. Expired account become unusable at a specific time, like a disabled user(the user account is not disabled when the account expires). 2. This is more or less like an automation provided by Microsoft to disable users. 3. Really handy, just in case you forget to disable the account once the
Use-case 1: Provisioning User Accounts For New Employees With The Same Department In The Active Directory Easily
Any organization would love to provision user accounts, with a few clicks, for new joinee's in a department. All accounts may differ with name but have a similar value on department, title, company, etc. Through User Creation Templates in ADManager Plus, you can pre-fill AD fields available on the UI and efficiently utilize them during creation. Step 1: Kindly go to AD Mgmt --> User Management --> User templates --> User Creation templates. Step 2: Click on Create New Template. Step 3: Create a new
Use-case 15: How To Manage Bulk Employee Privilege Allocation During Movement Or Elevation Through Active Directory Groups
Let's say you are planning on a bulk employee move within the organization or an elevation for a good number of users. What are the few question that would be running in your mind? What is the best way to provide these bunch of users permission over an application, resource, etc.? What is the easiest way to send emails to these recipients, rather than sending it individually? What is the best and the easiest way to revoke permissions over an application, resource, etc., and remove recipients from
Use-case 14: How To Manage Employee Account Changes When Moving To Another Department In Your Active Directory
Do you handle a lot of internal employee movement? Are you looking for pre-defined modification rules based on certain criteria? Do you think templates need to be smarter to dynamically change based on the criteria? You are reading the right post! Through ADManager Plus Modification Rules on templates, you can choose a querying field and add conditions. If the conditions match, the attributes that linked to the conditions change dynamically. Step 1: Kindly go to AD Mgmt --> User Management --> User
Use-case 13: How Would You Tackle Compromised Employee Account In Your Active Directory
When a crook employee gets hold of crucial employee credentials, your Active Directory can go bogus. Compromised accounts can turn the privileges of your Active Directory upside down and access resources inside out. Identifying compromised accounts is quiet challenging, if you don't have the right tools for the job. Monitoring logon activity, abnormal permission changes and frequent access to key resources can provide some heads-up to trailing a compromised account. With ADAudit Plus, speculating such
Use-case 7: How To Provision Exchange Mailbox, Skype For Business And O365 Accounts While Provisioning The Active Directory User Accounts For Employees
When a new employee joins the organization, you will have to create the user account and possibly other accounts like, a mailbox for the user, a Skype for business account and an O365 account. Now, this is just for one account. Imagine you are on a bulk new employee account provisioning spree. Envision all the tedious work of creating each accounts, separately, in each of those modules, for each of these newbies. Remember about the bulk employee provisioning spree on my earlier lines... huff!! User
Use-case 6: How About Pre-staging Users In Active Directory?!
We all know about pre-staging computers. How about pre-staging users accounts for employees that are likely to join in a while? On the User Creation Templates, you can disable the user account while creating accounts. Once the employee joins, you can enable the user account on will. Step 1: Kindly go to AD Mgmt --> User Management --> User Creation Templates. Step 2: Click on Create New Template. Step 3: Kindly fill the information pertaining to user creation on the templates and also, check "Account
Use-case 5: How To Provision User Accounts With a Single CSV file For Employees If Your Business Handles Multiple Domains
Is your organization managing multiple domains? Would user provisioning on all the domains, for a single user, take forever? You can create User Creation Templates based on domains, then run a simple CSV file with minimal user information against the templates and provision accounts in all domains with just a few clicks. Steps 1: Kindly create a simple CSV file with minimal information on the employees. Step 2: Go to AD Mgmt --> User Management --> Bulk User Management --> User Creation templates.
Use-case 4: How To Bulk Move Employees To Different Organizational Units In The Active Directory
Is your organization planning on a bulk employee move to other departments? Are you in search of a solution that can help you handle the move with ease? With a simple CSV file that contains the sAMAccountName of the users and their respective destination OU in the distinguished name format, the move is easy as cake. Now, let's move some users to OUs based on their regions, shall we?! Step 1: Kindly create a simple CSV file with two header, sAMAccountName and ouName. "sAMAccountName" list all the
Use-case 2 : Reset Employee Passwords And Email Them Automatically
Are you looking for a solution that can reset employee password and also securely email the password? Through User Modification Templates in ADManager Plus, you can reset passwords and also, email it with the help of a custom script attached in this topic. Step 1: Kindly go to AD Mgmt --> User Management --> User Templates --> User Modification Templates Step 2: click on Create New template Step 3: Type in a name for the template --> choose a password option --> click on Custom Attribute tab -->
Change the display name/icon on browser tab
We have multiple ManageEngine products. They all say - ManageEngine - productname. How can I change the name?
Update telephone number for Users
Dear All, I have 360 users in AD,i want to update their telephone number ,I have a CSV file with 2 columns user account name and telephone number, how do I use AD manager to update their telephone number? Regards Abu
Add computer OU to the CSV import file
Can we add the destination OU to the Computer import file (CSV)? We would like to create one file and put the computer into the correct OU.
SSL for ADmanager
How does one go about configuring the certificate for SSL for ADmanager? The Help manual says one must be configured, but since ADmanager doesn't use IIS, this isn't readily apparent, and I haven't been able to find any documentation on it.