How much time are you spending managing your Groups and Distribution Lists? Now you can increase the accuracy of distribution lists and security groups while reducing your work with
the easiest and most powerful automated distribution list and group management solution
available.
SmartDL is a powerful yet easy-to use
application that dynamically maintains distribution lists based on rules that are applied
to your directory data. When users' directory information changes, SmartDL automatically
updates the appropriate distribution lists. Your distribution lists will never be out of date
again! Try it today!
Key Features:
Simple and powerful Query Designer allows for extremely complex queries with a very simple to use designer interface. It is the most advanced query designer you can find for dynamic group management.
Flexible Dynasties that automatically creates distribution lists based on the most common criteria (manager, organization, location, etc).
Enhanced audit logging, specifiying who made changes, when they made the change, what they made changes to and what the original value was are stored in the event log.
Group Usage Service to monitor when mail is sent to a group, and updates the timestamp on the group.
Flexible scheduling options allow you to update groups every day, every hour, whenever the machine is idle - any way you want!
Dynamic schema detection automatically detects changes to your schema and displays new attributes in the Query Designer.
Active Directory Only Support manages AD groups using SmartDL without Exchange.
Preview Datasource option allows you to preview the objects that are defining the distribution list or dynasty before creating the actual distribution list or dynasty.
Automatically transfers the permissions of a previous owner to a new one.
Moves and copies groups automatically between different sites.
Dynasty by Manager creates and manages multi-level distribution lists (Dynasties) by each level of management
Transfer Ownership Wizard allows you transfer ownership of all groups owned by one user to another, in one step.
Multi-level Dynasty support allows you to quickly identify "sub-groups" and automatically group individuals into smaller groups under the primary Dynasty.
Online Help provides you with access the most update-to-date information or use the local help file if Internet access is not available - the choice is yours.
Key Business Benefits:
Ensures that a group's membership is only updated if a change occurs, eliminating unnecessary replication traffic.
Logs all events to the Windows Event log enabling you to use your favorite event management software such as Microsoft Operations Manager or NetPro’s DirectoryAnalyzer
Quickly restricts who can send to a group using Quick Security Filters.
SmartDL’s familiar interface is similar to ADUC - only prettier! Active Directory administrators will find themselves at home in the familiar interface decreasing the learning curve and increases productivity from day 1.
A SmartDL dynasty creates a group or distribution for every district value of the field you specify. Group a Dynasty by the department field and SmartDL will create a group for each distinct value of department in the directory. When a new department is created a new group is created - automatically!
Built in scheduling allows you to create a job to update all you Smart distribution lists and groups on a regular schedule – “Set it and Forget it!”
The SmartDL Query Designer is based on the Exchange 2000 Address Book builder, providing a familiar, easy-to-use interface for building and testing queries. You can even explicitly include or exclude people regardless of the query results. That's flexibility!
SmartDL's built-in help system is always ready and waiting to assist you.
