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Microsoft Exchange represents a powerful mail platform, delivering not only a great messaging and groupware platform but also a robust directory service that can provide your entire company with one standard address book. The problem is, it is rarely kept up-to-date due to time-consuming and seemingly never-ending tasks for network administrators. As employees come and go and existing users switch departments, change addresses, phone numbers, supervisors, etc., it becomes increasingly difficult for a growing enterprise to maintain such a large data source.
WebDir is a simple, yet powerful, web-based directory and group management solution that can immediately reduce administrative costs and increase the accuracy of Active Directory. Providing self-service, WebDir enables end users to update their own directory information, access a read-only corporate phonebook and change their own passwords based on controls the administrator sets. Group management is enhanced as user can create and manage their own groups, opt-in and opt-out of groups based on the security setting of that group.
Key Features:
- Allows users to update their own directory information and allows users to search the directory, change their password, modify groups they own and update their directory information.
- Group feature allows end users to securely create, delete and manage their own groups.
- Phonebook access allows anonymous or authenticated read-only access to the directory.
- Notification allows administrators to be informed when an object in the directory is changed using WebDir.
- Administrators can administer directory information, creating, updating and deleting users, contacts, and groups as necessary - all through any web browser.
- Administrators can customize the fields so that only the information they want changed can be changed.
- SharePoint integration allow you to funnel end-users through your corporate portal for essential information.
- Extended photo support lets you easily join users to their pictures by specifying the rules that define where photographs reside and which attribute in the directory to pair them with.
- Dynamic Schema detection automatically detects changes to your schema and displays new attributes.
- Customized functionality modes allow you to pick and chose the information and options the administrator wants seen.
- Cross-forest support enables administrators from a remote trusted forest to use and administer WebDir.
- Advanced security options allow you to enable or disable anonymous access and even allow contacts to logon.
Key Benefits:
- Every organization is different, which is exactly why WebDir can be easily customized to meet your needs. All settings are stored in an XML files, allowing you to simply add or remove fields in the design.xml file to get WebDir looking the way you want it.
- Active Directory users can now search the global catalog using WebDir.
- Your web-based directory management solution for BOTH Active Directory/Exchange 2000 and 2003 - all in one package.
- WebDir can now be forced to not make changes and instead a notification request to the appropriate person. Users can make their changes in WebDir, the changes (both attribute and group membership changes) are then sent to the approving person person allowing them to deny or accept and make the change on behalf of the end-user.
- Notification option enables WebDir to send email notifying administrators, owners, or managers of changes being made by users.
- Now you can setup approval processes within WebDir to notify the appropriate people of changes that were requested to make in the directory.
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