Thank you for choosing Adaxes as your enterprise directory management solution!
Softerra Adaxes is a highly customizable solution that facilitates and accelerates Active Directory management. Softerra Adaxes provides the advanced Administration Console for enhanced administration of Active Directory and Adaxes configuration, and the easy-to-use Web Interface for simplified access to Active Directory resources via a standard web browser.
Please, see the following sections for a detailed description of Softerra Adaxes:
Configuring Softerra Adaxes
After the installation of Softerra Adaxes, run the Adaxes Administration Console to configure the Adaxes service.
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| To run the Adaxes Administration Console, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Softerra Adaxes 2011.3, and click Administration Console. |
When the Administration Console starts, connect to an Adaxes service using the credentials of the default service administrator. The default service administrator is specified during the service installation.
For details, see Connect To Adaxes Service.
After that, register the AD domains you want to manage using this Adaxes service. The domain of the default service administrator is registered automatically.
For details, see Register/Unregister Managed Domain.
If necessary, customize Built-in Security Roles, Business Rules, Scheduled Tasks, and Property Patterns to meet your company needs.
For details, see Built-In Security Roles, Built-In Business Rules, Built-In Scheduled Tasks, Built-In Property Patterns.
Administration Console
Using Adaxes Administration Console you can manage the Adaxes service configuration and Active Directory domains managed by Adaxes services.
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To run the Adaxes Administration Console, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Softerra Adaxes 2011.3, and click Administration Console. |
Using Adaxes Administration Console you can:
Delegate permissions
See Creating Security Role, Modifying Security Role Assignments, Modifying Security Role Permissions.
Automate routine tasks and introduce custom commands
See Creating Business Rule, Modifying Business Rule Actions And Conditions, Modifying Business Rule Activity Scope, Creating Custom Command, Modifying Custom Commands, Creating Scheduled Task, Modifying Scheduled Task Actions and Conditions.
Set formatting constraints and auto-generating rules for AD objects
See Creating Property Pattern, Modifying Property Pattern, Modifying Property Pattern Activity Scope.
Manage Active Directory
See Creating User, Creating Contact, Creating Groups, Creating Organizational Unit, Adding or Removing Group Members, Modifying Object Group Membership, Renaming Objects, Moving Objects, Enabling/Disabling User Account, Searching Active Directory, Modifying AD Objects in Bulk, Configure Fine-Grained Password Policy, Exporting Directory Objects, Importing Directory Objects.
Create rule-based collections of AD objects from different locations
See Creating Business Units, Modifying Business Unit Membership Rules, Viewing Business Units an Object Belongs to.
Perform Exchange tasks
See Creating Exchange Mailboxes, Establishing E-mail Address, Establishing Email Address on Group.
Set approval requests for operations
Configure Password Self-Service
Monitor log records
See View Service Log
Exchange provisioning data with SPML-compliant applications
See Creating SPML Connectors, Modifying SPML Schema Mapping, Modifying SPML Connector Activity Scope, Specifying Operations to Send SPML Requests for
Perform other tasks
See Feature Summary
Adaxes Web Interface
Using Adaxes Web Interface you can manage Active Directory and generate Active Directory reports via a standard web browser. To provide for different job roles of Web Interface users, Adaxes enables you to install three different Web Interfaces for different roles.
Web Interfaces for different roles - Administrators, Help Desk, and Self-Service - are adapted for typical tasks of these roles.
Web Interface for Administrators Allows Active Directory administrators to perform practically any operation in Active Directory.
Web Interface for Help Desk Allows Help Desk operators to handle tasks related to user account management, like password reset, unlock/enable/disable user accounts, modify general properties of AD objects, etc.
Web Interface for Self-Service Allows regular users to accomplish self-service tasks without assistance from administrators or Help Desk staff. Users can update their private information, change passwords, perform basic searches in AD, etc.
These Web Inteface types can be separately configured using the Web Interface Customization tool (see Disabling Web Interface Components, Customizing AD Search, Customizing Forms for Object Creation and Editing, Disallowing Specific Operations on AD Objects).
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If the Adaxes Web Interface is installed on your computer, to run the Adaxes Web Interface, click Start, point to All Programs - Softerra Adaxes 2011.3 - Web Interface, and click the Web Interface type you need (Web Interface for Administrators, Web Interface for Help Desk, or Web Interface for Self-Service). If the Adaxes Web Interface is not installed on your computer, to run the Adaxes Web Interface, enter the address of the Web Interface installed on another computer in the web browser address bar. By default, the Web Interface address is as follows: http://<HOST>/Adaxes<Type>/Default.aspx |
Using Adaxes Web Interface you can:
Manage Active Directory resources
See Creating User, Creating Contact, Creating Groups, Creating Organizational Unit, Adding or Removing Group Members, Modifying Object Group Membership, Renaming Objects, Moving Objects, Enabling/Disabling User Account, Searching Active Directory.
Search for Active Directory objects
Perform self-management tasks
See Changing User Password, Adding or Modifying AD Object Properties, Searching for Disabled User/Computer Accounts.
Generate Active Directory reports
Perform other Active Directory management tasks