Features
Easy Administration Suite is an administrative interface to control most administrative tasks in Active Directory and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager.
Features
In the following Easy Administration Suite's different functions are outlined.
Active Directory:
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Creation deactivation and deletion of user and computer accounts
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Reset password and reenable user accounts
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Creation of groups and assignment of users and computers to groups
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager:
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Creation of computer objects
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Assignment of task sequences for OS distribution
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Assignment or reassignment of software directly to computers or to Active Directory Groups
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Deletion of computer objects in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
With the extension to the basic OS distribution functionality in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, it is possible to:
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Assign system locale, user locale and keyboard localization to the image process securing that international customers get a fully localized OS installation (Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager only sets time zone setting in standard task sequences).
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Install computers without having to prestage them in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager console prior to PXE booting them. This can be done at the user's work place, and you can define the following during the decentralized prestage:
- Several of the selections below can be predefined in templates that preselect e.g. OU, language settings, software and task sequence to use
- Computer name, description and OU placement
- Software assignment, individually or from groups of software (e.g. all accounting software)
- OS localization (as described earlier)
- Assignment of OS images (select from several task sequences e.g. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7)
- Assignment of DHCP or static IP address
- Prestage computers centralized, thus enabling us to define the
following during the central prestage:
- Several of the selections below can be predefined in templates that preselect e.g. OU, language settings, software and task sequence to use
- Computer name, description and OU placement
- Software assignment, individually or from groups of software (e.g. all accounting software)
- OS localization (as described earlier)
- Assignment of OS images (select from several task sequences e.g. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7)
- Assignment of DHCP or static IP address
- Prestage a number of computers from a CSV file (same settings as above)
The solution is, and will in future versions, be based on standard Microsoft developing tools and technologies. Our goal is to make the administration of primarily Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and Active Directory easier to manage, and to deliver the tools to our customers enabling them to manage most administrative tasks from one console.
