SharePoint AD Management Pack launched

SharePoint AD Management Pack is a suite of four powerful SharePoint administration enhancements designed to ease the burden of SharePoint administrators. Comprising of Password Change, AD Information Sync, AD Administration, and AD Self Service, AD Management Pack greatly boosts SharePoint administration productivity by delegating non-system critical tasks related to AD to users, and integrating AD operations with SharePoint. The SharePoint Password Change web part considerably alleviates administrator workload by giving SharePoint users the ability to change their own passwords while ensuring access security. It consists of two web parts: Password Change and Password Expiration Warning.

Features

• Allows administrator to permit any user the ability to change other user's AD properties
• Change AD or Local NT passwords without administrator intervention
• Notify users before passwords expire
• Synchronize AD users, AD information, user photos, computers, contacts, and OUs or any modifications made to SharePoint list with AD
• Warns users on password change failures or if password does not meet policy
• Manually or schedule an automatic synchronization
• Administrator can grant any users with authoritative power to manage organizational units, users and groups in AD
• Records operations into log files
• Send e-mail notifications to system administrators or managers once properties have been changed
• Administrator can decide delegation scope and permissions for each user
• With the permission of the administrator, users can e-mail other users or groups directly from within AD admin web part
• Properties & tabs can be added or removed by the administrator from within the web part
• Change password to current logged in user only via main user menu in SharePoint
• Import/export sync profiles
• Customizable error messages
• Exclude specified information in sync process

About SharePointBoost

SharePointBoost is a leading developer of SharePoint solutions that bridge the gap between SharePoint out-of-the-box and the custom functionality needed to make daily business operations smooth and efficient. SharePointBoost believe that all businesses should have access to advanced technology solutions tailored to their specific needs and delivered with professional service and support. SharePointBoost have developed a complete suite of fully-customizable SharePoint solutions for just this purpose, designed to unlock the full potential of SharePoint.