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Active Directory Management and User Self Service in SharePoint
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  • AD Management
  • User Self Service
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The Active Directory Management Console is a powerful, administrator focused tool, entirely built on SharePoint Platform. The AD Management console provides the administrators with the necessary actions required for User Management, Group Management and OU Management, all from a single SharePoint interface. The Active Directory Management Console allows the administrators to quickly and easily carry out management tasks without requiring the knowledge of complex AD scripts. Using this tool, the administrator does not even require to open the Microsoft Active Directory management toolset for performing day to day AD management activities.

The AD Management console provides capabilities like secure delegation of Group and OU management that allows the administrators to selectively delegate the user, Group and OU management responsibilities to people designated as delegated administrators. The product is focused on reducing the load on the administrators, reducing the time spent on user, group and OU management, and increasing the administrators productivity by allowing them to focus on other administrative activities of the organization.

The AD Management console provides reporting capability, which provides real-time statistics to the administrators. These reports would allow the administrators to quickly find the information he requires from the Active Directory right from the SharePoint Interface

The Optimus BT AD management console also contains approval workflows for user creation, enabling / disabling of users, and for deleting users. The workflows are managed through a separate section of the console, which displays a security trimmed list of the workflows and their status.

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The Exchange Connector Module

The Exchange Connector Module allows for simultaneous creation of a Mailbox in Exchange server when a new user is being created. This automates the task of user setup, and reduces the number of steps required to setup a new user within the organization. This connector module is available as a add-on to the AD Management console, or as a standalone component

The SharePoint User Provisioning Connector

The SharePoint User Provisioning connector allows for adding a newly created user to a predetermined SharePoint site, thus allowing them quick access to the SharePoint sites. This connector comes as an add-on to the AD Management console.

The AD Management Console and the add-ons can be used in Intranet, Extranet and Hosted environment without needing special settings and configurations.

View the Product Packaging options to know more about different package configurations for the AD Management Console. Contact us if you require additional customizations with the AD Management Console.

Key Benefits

  • Manage the Active Directory from within your SharePoint site
  • Export reports of users and groups outside the Active Directory for better analysis
  • Perform User management related activities from a single centralized SharePoint page
  • Work with more than one domain from the same location
  • High security due to role based access and logging
  • Avoid usage of scripts to perform complex user management tasks
  • Manage your profile without any help from technical staff
  • Easily configure the AD Management console for delegated administration
  • One single set of web parts and administration screens to manage Intranet users, extranet users and users on an hosted environment
  • Share, if not reduce the burden of IT user management

Key Features

  • Multilevel, selective user permissions and privileges setting
  • A Single console for managing Users, OUs and Groups
  • Delegation of user management activities within Groups and OUs
  • Approval workflows for user creation, enable / disable and delete
  • Easy domain configuration
  • AD Management Console permissions do not interfere with the AD Server permissions
  • Automated, random generation of password for better security
  • SharePoint look and feel
  • Integrated, robust reporting
  • Role based administration

Optimus BT's User Self Service for SharePoint is focused on providing the end users with the capability of securely managing their profiles and passwords through the SharePoint environment. The User Self Service for SharePoint is a collection of web parts - The User Profile Management web part, The Change Password Web Part and the Reset Password web part, which can be dragged and dropped on the SharePoint site or web part page. The Web parts have an easy to use interface, which allows the users to add the web part and start using it right away.

The User Profile management web part allows the users to change their profile information like First Name, Last Name, and other profile attributes. The Administrator can additionally configure the web part to restrict the users from changing sensitive profile information.

The Reset password and the Change Password web parts allow the end users to manage their passwords without depending on the help desk, or on the administrators to carry out the task. This avoids unnecessary wait times for the request to be processed, and increases the productivity and saves time, allowing the users to concentrate on their other day to day activities.

All User Profile Management, Reset Password and Change Password web parts can be used within Intranet, Extranet and hosted environments. Built as an extension to SharePoint, these Add-ons are totally web based and allow for user management and self service capabilities to be securely accessed from any where, any time.

View the Product Packaging options to know more about different package configurations for the Self Service web parts. Contact us if you require additional customizations.

Key Benefits

  • Allow users to manage their profile information securely and with greater control
  • Reduce the amount of Help desk requests made by users
  • End users save time spent in processing of the requests
  • Administrators save time spent on processing the requests
  • Keep track of the activities performed from within SharePoint
  • Configure the product for different departments/areas within the organization easily
  • Drag and drop the web part whenever required
  • Add more value to the user's personalized pages

Key Features

  • Secure and controlled exposure of AD Profile attributes
  • Easily installable
  • Web based interface for real time access from any where
  • Use the Self Service components with the AD Management component, or without it
  • Allow for self service from any domain within your organization
  • Intranet, Extranet, Internet, and hosted SharePoint environment compatible


AD Management Demo
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System Requirements

Operating System Windows Server 2003
Supported SharePoint Versions Windows SharePoint Services v 3.0
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Windows SharePoint Services v 2.0
SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater
Mozilla Firefox


Package Options

Feature AD Management
and Self Service
web parts
Windows SharePoint
Services 3.0
Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007
AD User, Group and OU Management through SharePoint Available N/A N/A
Ability to change user's AD Password Available N/A N/A
Ability to reset user's AD Password Available N/A N/A
Ability to change user's profile information in AD Available N/A N/A
Ability to locally cache the user's AD Profile information N/A N/A Available
Real-time display of user information from AD Available N/A Periodic Synchronization
Multilevel permission options for AD Management Available N/A N/A
Delegation of Group and OU management activities Available N/A N/A
Reporting Available N/A Very Limited
Multiple domain configuration Available N/A Available
Integration with any LDAP Systems N/A N/A Available
Workflow Integration Available N/A N/A
Centralized AD Management Available N/A N/A
Available for Business Users Available N/A N/A
Easily extendable / customizable to suite any organizations requirements Available N/A N/A


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