Helping help-desks help, without letting them help themselves to your AD!
Help Desk : Our portable, customisableAD management launcher!
A much-overlooked feature of our Automation Studio product is our extremely handy Active Directory management ‘Help Desk’ app. The app is written completely in our FastTrack Script language (fully open for you to view and tweak) and enables the IT Administrator to ‘empower’ help-desk staff to safely perform selected everyday tasks of Active Directory management. All of this is done using a single & simple portable 1.2 MB EXE file. There’s nothing to ‘install’, and no MMC snap ins or special privileges required!
The app setup wizard allows you to supply an appropriately created administrator account which gets ‘baked in’ to the EXE. When launched, your newly empowered user can perform all the AD duties you have allowed, without you having to hand over any AD administrator rights.
Granular delegation of common Active Directory management tasks
Better still, when you build the app, you have complete granular control of what parts of the app you want to provide to your users. For instance, you might ONLY want to give a help-desk user / team the ability to view group Active Directory group membership, to unlock user accounts and perhaps restart the print spooler service.
For further control, you can also ‘lock’ the ‘scope’ of the Help Desk application to a specific AD OU, which provide even greater granularity.
Customisability is key
Being written in completely open FastTrack Script code, simply reviewing our Help Desk application code I find is a great means to explore the capabilities of our scripting language. Go ahead and borrow parts of it as inspiration for other apps you want to create, or clone and then extend it with some additional script of your own. You have over 1,500 commands to play with.
If you wanted to beef up the password changer app so that for example:
- Only launch on a PC with a specific MAC address
- Only allow changes to users in a certain OU during work hours
- Fire off a web request to your CRM logging to the change request task
- Email the user informing them of the password change
Yes, that’s all possible!
So why not download your free trial copy today?