Directory Admin

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

User Provisioning App for Exchange mailbox, Active Directory and Lync accounts

Hi guys,

this is a cool tool for User Account provisioning in your Microsoft environment.

"Z-Hire automates the IT account creation process for Exchange mailbox, Active Directory, Lync accounts and Office 365 cloud deployments. With just a click of the button, your Exchange mailbox, and Active directory and Lync accounts will be created simultaneousy. This app can also create and set custom settings for Office 365 accounts using templates. Z-Hire serves as the platform for new hire accounts by allowing auto-creation of major IT accounts with the option for custom scripts. Z-hire will increase your account deployment time by 600%, without the need for complicated and expensive identity management solutions. Some of the features include:
- Environment Auto discovery (AD/Exchange/Lync)
- Support for Active Directory, Exchange, Lync 2010 and Office 365 accounts
- Template based deployment (allows consistency for all user accounts)
- Office 365 account creation with major attributes
- Active Directory account creation with major attributes
- Active Directory group selection
- Active Directory duplicate SamAccountName verification
- Lync 2010 account creation supporting all policies
- Faster performance (compared to previous version)
- Best of all, it's freeware!"

Download Link:
Z-Hire-Employee-Provisionin App

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 8

"Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 Release Preview includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line tools for managing roles and features that run on Windows Server 2012. In limited cases, the tools can be used to manage roles and features that are running on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008. Some of the tools work for managing roles and features on Windows Server 2003"

Download RSAT

Thursday, June 21, 2012

ADUC: Add the Remote Install Tab in Win7/Vista and the option to add the GUID by creating Computer

After installing RSAT...
Copy the following files from a Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 if you using a 64bit system:
imadmui.dll
imadmui.dll.mui

Save the following as RemoteTab.bat

@echo off

echo This program will add the option to type in the GUID by adding Computer accounts with ADUC and add also the Remote Install tab hf TIM
echo.

xcopy imadmui.dll "%systemroot%\system32\" /e /y > nul:
xcopy imadmui.dll.mui "%systemroot%\system32\EN-US\" /e /y > nul:
regsvr32 "%systemroot%\system32\imadmui.dll" /s

exit

Put the three files in the some folder and doubleclick the "RemoteTab.bat".
If you get a Access Denied message turn off the UAC and reboot the system and try again.