Archive for the 'Active Directory Updates' Category

New PeopleUpdate demostration videos – Web-based, Active Directory Management

Our engineers have created a series of demonstration online videos that provide insight into how PeopleUpdate can be used to delegate active directory updates out to the information and business owners within your organization.  Each video provides a different view of PeopleUpdate through the eyes of a typical end-user, a typical HR-user and a typical IT-user.  Here are the links to the online YouTube videos:

Typical end-user view - 

Typical HR-user view –

Typical IT-user view –

Needless to say, there are many other ways you can configure and customize PeopleUpdate to manage your Active Directory information based on your organizations’ needs.  Please take a look at the videos and let us know if you have any questions or comments.  And remember, you can always request a 30-day evaluation of PeopleUpdate on our website or call us toll free at +1-800-747-3565.

Dynamic email signature that pulls from Active Directory

I’m sure if asked everyone could come up with a few reasons for having Active Directory kept with accurate information…but here is another one I came across.  The link below is to a script that allows you to create email signatures for your users in Outlook by pulling in the information that is kept in Active Directory.  So if you update Active Directory on a regular basis and/or allow users to use a delegated update to Active Directory like PeopleUpdate then this script has some real value to you.

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/b6dfc6d1-5354-4ed0-9856-9547d19ef670/view/Discussions

It looks like the most logical place to apply this script would probably be a login script so that the signature is updated every time the user logs in.  If you are doing desktop virtualization then this is another powerful tool to automate the profile setup process.

If you are interested in delegating updates to Active Directory to your end-users, human resources department, etc then you should check out Web Active Directory’s PeopleUpdate product at http://www.webactivedirectory.com