User Management

Perhaps no single administration task can take as much time as routine user and group administration, particularly in a large, complex Windows NT/200x installation.  Setting up individual home directories, shares, and the security requirements can be especially time-consuming.  Hyena's user management features are one of its core functions.

If your Windows NT/200x configuration makes use of home directories, Hyena has a unique solution for you: Hyena allows multiple templates to be configured that can be used to automatically create the user's home directory, optionally share it, plus configure the share and/or NTFS permissions...all automatically.  This functionality is available for both standard and Terminal Server home directories.

Hyena's contains many other enhancements to the standard user management functions provided by built-in Microsoft utilities.  Hyena can manage users by their group membership, and offer options for removal of user home directory and share information when users are deleted.  If using Active Direcotory, Hyena allows user administration either through an OU or the All Users and All Groups objects, can also access the employee ID and photo attribute, and can show both direct and indirect group members.  Another popular user-management feature is showing all logon information for either a single user account, or exporting the 'last logon' for every user in the domain.

Hyena User Management Functions (just for starters)

• Quickly viewing all users for any server or workstation
• Customisable user view display, plus one-click sorting on any attribute
• View users by group membership
• Viewing single user (designed for slow WAN connections)
• Modifying single and multiple user properties
• Extensive Active Directory (AD) user attribute support, including user photo capability, Exchange 5.5/200x integration, customisable AD queries, and much more.  How much more?  Click here for a sample.
• Add/modify/delete Exchange mailbox properties [Enterprise Edition only]
• Add/modify user terminal server information [Enterprise Edition only]
• Reset password
• Find buttons for login script and profiles on user properties dialog
• Edit login script using Notepad or any user-defined editor
• Explorer integration with user home and profile directories
• Optional automatic cleanup of user home and profile directories
• Access user home directory share properties;create user home directory and share automatically
• Add new users, including copy from existing user (clone)
• View user logon, including last logon, statistics
• Rename user
• Send message to user
• Delete single or multiple users
• Customisable batch files for special user handling requirements
• Copy users from one computer to another
• [Active Directory Only] Add selected users to designated group

Group Management Functions

• Full group administration - add, modify, delete, copy
• Rename groups
• Copy groups from one computer to another
• [Active Directory Only] View both direct and indirect (nested) group members for one or more groups
• [Active Directory Only] View all group members, including for multiple groups/entire domain

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