Password Control
For Active Directory networks
Overview
Password Control is a tool designed to allow helpdesk staff and other IT support
personnel to reset user passwords. It has a simple and intuitive interface
that many users find more productive than a custom MMC console. Password Control
is designed to work with Active Directory based domains.
It also features other functions such as the ability to enable and disable user
accounts (you can edit a config file to remove these features if required).
The "G" button shown in the screenshot above (next to the password box) is used
to generate random passwords. By default the generated password will contain
a random combination of upper case and lower case characters and digits. Symbols
can also be included and you can alter the length of the password generated above
that of your minimum password length setting. You can also choose to use a
"pass phrase" or a custom password mask. A pass phrase is simply a combination
of two words seperated by a space. A mask gives you the ability to set the exact
format of the password. e.g. 5 lowercase characters followed by 2 digits, A random
word followed by 3 digits, a specific password etc.
Features
Enable/Disable Accounts.Password Reset with automatic account unlock.Password Generation. A random password can be generated of a specified length
with the option of uppercase, lowercase, digits and symbols. A pass phrase
can also be used or you can specify a custom mask for generating passwords.Unlock user accounts.
Change various account options. e.g. "Password Never Expires", "User must change
password at next logon" etc
Connect As Feature - Quick and easy method of running Password Control as a user
with enhanced privileges.
Multi-Domain support. The domain can easily be changed using the menu and the domain
list is built automatically from the trusted domains in your enterprise. You can
also add additional domains by hand or configure Password Control so that is connects
to a specific domain controller. By default, Password Control will connect to any
available domain controller in the current domain, but this behavior can easily
be changed.
Searching capabilities - Easy to search for user accounts when the account name
is not known. A sinple search feature is included to search for users based
on a combination of firstname and surname. An advanced search feature is also
included that reuses the existing Microsoft object search dialog with which you
are probably already familiar.Ability to customize which properties are displayed for user accounts. Display virtually
any attribute.Domain Policy - A quick method to determine which password policy settings are defined
for your domain.
Extensible design - additional features can be added with scripts.
Picture Gallery feature for users storing photos in Active Directory.
Bulk Password Control
for changing Passwords for many user accounts.
Bulk Modify
for changing attributes of many user accounts.
