Complex Username and Password GenerationYou will get your custom username and password right...guaranteed
User Management Resource Administrator has built-in routines to generate usernames according to your company policy, and also routines to generate random passwords. Passwords can be generated randomly using security rules such as a set amount of lowercase and uppercase characters, combined with special characters to result in strong passwords. Usernames can be generated using parts of the users full name, for instance first name, middle name and last name. Whenever the username already exists in the Active Directory, you can configure the name generation algorithm to try adding numbers or characters until the username no longer results in a duplicate. You can also switch to an alternative algorithm to supply a completely unique username.
Best of all, you no longer need to supply the username yourself by using scripting or programs such as Microsoft Excel to modify the input CSV files. User Management Resource Administrator includes script actions to export and print the generated usernames and passwords so you can distribute them.
How does it work and what does it look like?
User Management Resource Administrator uses a name generator to generator names used for instance when creating user accounts or setting Exchange mailboxes. How names are generated is configured in the name generator algorithm. User Management Resource Administrator comes with a large set of predefined name generation algorithms, which you can easily modify and suit to your needs. Use the Options menu in the main application to configure name generations, after this you can select the configured algorithm in for instance the Create user (AD) script action.
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When you configure a name generation algorithm, you can setup multiple output names and multiple generation methods per output name. Suppose you supply a first and last name using a CSV file, then you will need names such as sAMAccountName, UPN prefix, displayName and commonName, to create an Active Directory user account. Essentially this means you require a username and a fullname which then are applied to the correct Active Directory attributes. The screenshot below shows the output names being stored in the %username% and %fullname%. As you can see the output name %username% has 1 method assigned to it, labelled "JFWilliams". This label has been named to represent how the username is generated. In the following example the username will be generated differently to demonstrate the flexibility.
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As you can see in the above screenshot, the "JFWilliams" method for the %username% output variable uses the %LastName% and %FirstName% parts, which must be specified as input using CSV for instance. Each name part can have one or more formatting functions applied to it, for instance the %LastName% part has a function assigned to it which makes all characters lower case. The resuling username when using "John" and "Addams" as respectively first and last name is "addamsj"
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Same goes for the full name, where all name parts are used and simply added to each other to compose the full name. The resuling username when using "John" and "Addams" as respectively first and last name is "John Addams".
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As vital aspect to name generation is duplicate handling and processing. User Management Resource Administrator uses an "iterator" to process duplicate names. The iterator tells the name generator what its next option is to generate a unique name. As you can see in the above screenshot, the iterator is a sequence of numbers, starting at 1,2,3,4,5... and so on until a unique name is found. You can also specify an arbitrary sequence yourself. A possibility is also to create a new method to create a username whenever a duplicate is found. Let's assume you have the username "addamsj" and it already exists. You could add a number, resulting in "addamsj1", but you could also starting adding more characters of the first name, making the first try "addamsjo". This last result requires a new method where you simply modify the formatting function to shorten the first name from 1 character to 2 characters. The iteration can be configured not to add numbers but jump to the next generation method.
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When you have configured the name generation methods, you can return to the main window of the algorithm and test your methods altogether. As you can see in the above screenshot, the "default" name generation algoritm is used with a simple iterator, which just adds numbers to the user and fullname to make them unique.
Password generator
As with the username, you can also setup User Management Resource Administrator to generator random passwords for new or existing user accounts. User Management Resource Administrator comes with a large set of pre-defined password generation schemes to satisfy most demands. Use the test button to see what the resulting passwords are when generated. As you can see, the generated password is stored in the %password% variable, which can be exported to a CSV file to make sure you know what the users' passwords are.
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