Z-Hire from Zohno helps you to reduce the time and steps needed during the onboarding of new employees by allowing you to set up templates for user accounts. These templates can then be used to create not just an Active Directory account, but also an Exchange mailbox, Lync account, and even a Salesforce account.
AdSysNet (ASN) has built a nice and comprehensive tool for bulk managing and reporting on AD objects, all through a simple to use graphical interface.
Softerra Adaxes aims to be comprehensive solution for management, administration and monitoring of Active Directory. Does it measure up? You be the judge.
This handy little tool was developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, and is part of the most execellent SysInternals tool set. It is more than just a simple viewer tool, though.
Need to bulk import users into Active Directory? Need to make bulk changes to existing Active Directory users? AD Bulk Users makes importing and modifying large numbers of users easy. Import users in bulk from CSV, Excel, ODBC, SQL, Oracle etc.
Compliancy blues got you down? ADAudit Plus can help. I’ve used this tool in the past for monitoring SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and FISMA compliance, and can only say good things about it.
I’ve shown you previously how to get the date value from the system in a batch file. You can also grab the time in a similar fashion.
There is one simple reason that I am moving my email back to Gmail: Search is broken.
There are a two really easy ways to get the netBIOS name of the local machine. One leverages API calls to Win32, while the other simply queries an environment variable.
During the installation of Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR), you may run into a puzzling error, “Failed to invoke PowerShell query SCVMM components are not installed.” Luckily, an easy fix.