This summer we installed Identity Manager on one of our NetWare boxes, and anticipated loads of extra free time from a reduced user management work
- Allow for user password self-service
- Sync GroupWise passwords with NDS passwords
- Import staff accounts into AD from NDS
Users expect to be able to reset their own passwords with a challenge-response system. So far this part of the system is working great – however we haven’t rolled it out across all users as we need to develop some training so that when the 1st day that logging in will ask you to answer questions comes that users know what to do.
The other two options could prove to be significant time savers. Having GroupWise sync with NDS – especially when initially creating users should reduce administration time quite a bit. AD sync will allow all of the millions of Windows apps that are AD aware to use the account info in AD and save boatloads of time by not requiring separate account administration.
In reality, I’m fairly disappointed with what we have so far…