Active Directory

Hyena provides full support for Active Directory (AD) Organisational Units, directory searching, universal groups, management of object properties, security auditing, and other AD mixed and native mode features.  Due to Hyena's ease-of-use, most AD environments can be managed more efficiently and quickly using Hyena's AD management functions.  Hyena has numerous features that you won't find in the standard built-in Microsoft administration tools.

Windows 2000 domain object class

Hyena adds a new Windows 2000 domain object class.  When a Windows 2000 domain is expanded in Hyena's tree window, additional sub-objects are displayed, specifically: Containers/OUs, All Users, All Groups, Global Groups, Local Groups, and Universal Groups objects.  All management of the display of Active Directory objects are handled entirely by LDAP queries to Active Directory.

Organisational Units

Organisational Units (OUs) are fully supported, both for browsing OU contents, as well as for creating new users, groups, contacts, and computer objects directly into an OU.  A powerful Find feature is available for any OU, allowing selectable criteria for finding and filtering AD information.  OU properties are also available, including full support for management of Group Policy Object (GPO) information.

Filtering Toolbar

Hyena's Filtering Toolbar provides for powerful object filtering when browsing the contents of any OU, including traversing into sub-OUs.

Customisable AD queries

Hyena is the only product that supports customisable Active Directory queries at every object level.  Define your own queries, or use any of the predefined queries to display custom "views" of exactly what directory attributes you want to see for organisational units, users, groups, or computers.  Hyena's queries can also contain a customised LDAP filter, if desired, for the ultimate in server-side AD filtering and query performance.  

View AD attributes

With Hyena, you can access and view any AD attribute, including, the employee ID and user photo attributes.  Moreover, you can add your own custom AD attributes for managing users.

Edit AD

Hyena includes an extensive ADSIedit-like capability to manage any Active Directory attribute for one or more directory objects.  But unlike ADSI-Edit, Hyena's AD attribute management dialogs are easy to use and understand.  Plus, you can define your own attribute sets to be used over and over and visually see what the values are before and after making any changes.

Manage AD

Hyena supports the use of the standard shell property pages for management of many Active Directory objects, providing for full MMC-like functionality, while still providing Hyena's legendary ease-of-use and navigation.  Hyena also supports the display of the shell context menu for most directory objects, providing access to popular Microsoft functions such as Exchange Tasks for email-enabled objects, as well as 3rd-party shell extensions.

Delegated Security

Active Directory administrators know how difficult it can be to keep track of delegated security rights.  Hyena makes keeping track of this much easier with Active Directory Security Listing views : Just select one or more AD objects, right click, and select List Directory Security.  Its that simple.  

Find

Hyena provides access to the standard Microsoft Active Directory 'Find' dialog, but adds two important features: The selection criteria can be saved for future or external use, and the objects that are found can be returned to Hyena for further management tasks.

Exchange

Hyena supports management of Exchange 5.5 and 200x mailboxes: mailbox creation, deletion, and property modification can all be easily controlled in Hyena's powerful GUI.

Export data

As always, Hyena's output window, including any Active Directory displays, can be easily exported or integrated into Hyena's built-in Microsoft Access database.

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