SSRPM – Self Service Password Reset SSRPM

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SSRPM – Self Service Password Reset SSRPM

Now I am going to talk about a different product from tools4ever called Self Service Password Reset Manager SSRPM for short, in this blog. Why you ask? Some of my clients I build portals / intranet sites for also have this self service portal for their users to reset there password with. Most clients want some type of integration of SSRPM into their custom UMRA web portal. This will allow a delegated user the ability not only to manage the user Active Directory Attributes, but also view the users Self Service Password Reset Manager questions and answers, and other vital information of there SSRPM without having any types of elevated rights to additional programs. So lets talk what SSRPM does, SSRPM allows your users to have ability to reset there password in Active Directory 24/7 via a web interface, or GINA extensions. You as an admin, can add/remove users by OU or groups to be provisioned to use SSRPM, and you can customize the different options on how a user can enroll into SSRPM, allow them to pick and choose their question challenge and response questions, or even having the user create their e own.

SSRPM –SSRPM Web Interface / Portal

As I’ve talked about in my previous paragraph, there are 2 ways to reset your password, if you are enrolled into SSRPM, one of which is through the SSRPM Web Interface / Portal. The portal installs on a standard Microsoft IIS environment, VM with IIS work perfectly fine also. The SSRPM Web Interface / Portal allows for a user to perform all tasks associated with SSRPM, enrolling, resetting there password, and even unlocking there account if they locked themselves out of SSRPM. The SSRPM Web Interface / Portal is standard .asp pages mostly driven by css style sheets, and can be reskined or even integrated into an intranet site, or portal you already have in your company. Below is a screen shot of the SSRPM Web Interface / Portal.

SSRPM –SSRPM GINA

The GINA is the second way a user can use the SSRPM application. This deployment is typically pushed out via GPO or SMS. tools4ever built in a nice SSRPM admin template to allow for different provisioned users to have different options. So if you look at the picture below, we add the “Forgot my Password” button below the windows login screen. The same options through the SSRPM Web Interface / Portal apply here through the SSRPM GINA extension. This method however is not as customizable as the SSRPM Web Interface / Portal is, however you still have control for things such as multiple domains etc. See the picture below.

UMRA –SSRPM TIPS AND TRICKS

Some of you might be asking why I covered this different product from tools4ever called Self Service Password Reset Manager. Simple, a lot of our clients have SSRPM also running in there environment, and in later posts I will show you have to pull back data from SSRPM and display it in your UMRA web portal.