Where's the Web Admin
Page for the AD?
For the last
code and info goto:
http://info.izzy.org/Technical/AD%20%20Exchange/ADEAdmin/
Since AD was released I have been waiting for
Microsoft to provide a basic user administration tool for AD and
Exchange. But six years later they still haven't and I haven't been
able to find a free tool that does what I have been looking for.
Various 3rd parties, including NetIQ whom I used to be a
product manager for, do include web consoles for their tools. While
at NetIQ I oversaw the development of their AD & Exchange rules
based administration tool, which does include a great web console.
But these tools are not free. After searching around the Internet
for a web based user admin tool and not finding one I finally
decided to write my own. Here is the basic look.
Requirements for a
Web Admin Page
My primary requirement was to provide the
ability to create new users in the AD based on 'template' accounts.
When a new user account is created I wanted to have some of the
properties of the template account copied to the new account, like
company name. To support this I decided to store the list of
attributes I wanted to be copied in the Notes: field (info
in LDAP) of the template account. In addition, I wanted to always
copy the groups the template account was a member of and its
location (OU)
in the AD. The last requirement I had was to have the ability to
mail enable or mailbox enable the new user.
Using a Template
Account
The template accounts should be created in the
OU where you want new users accounts to be create, it should not be
mail or mailbox enabled. Add the template account to the groups you
want new users based on it to be a member of. If you plan on mail
or mailbox enabling new users put in the smtp domain name, just the
part to the right of the @ in the E-mail: (mail)
field, for example
izzy.org. This domain name will be used when mail or mailbox
enabling the new user. Enter the pre-Windows 2000: (samAccountName)
of the template account, this will be used in the ASP page to find
the template account. On the Telephones tab enter all of the
attributes you want copied from the template account to the new user
accounts in the Notes: (info)
field. Separate them with a comma, i.e.
description,department,company. The current version of the code
only supports single valued string based attributes.
Code Logic
The code below is from 'DoWork.asp', first off
I am just a 'hack' ASP\HTML coder and would be more than happy to
work with an expert in this area to make the ASP pages look and act
better. 'CreateUser.asp' is a basic form that prompts the user for
the required fields to create a user account, a few options fields,
and if the new user account should be mail or mailbox enabled. If
the user is going to be mail enabled the user must enter an external
e-mail address. CreateUser.asp calls DoWork.asp. |
