UMRA – Web Portal Active Directory Reporting Audit

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UMRA – Web Portal Active Directory Reporting Audit

In recent posts I’ve talked a lot about how to take actions on Active Directory objects with a UMRA Web Portal. However, sometimes you may just want to get a quick overview what’s currently in your Active Directory. Maybe you want to get a current count of Active Users, or Disabled users, or go a step further and grab these users, but also grab these users accountnames, displayname, group memberships etc. There are not a lot of tools out there right now that will do this for you, and if they do, they require extra modules to be purchased or long amounts of downtime for them to upgrade your Active Directory Tool. However, with UMRA that’s a thing of the past, you can now create simple scripts to query Active Directory in real time and get you the latest information on users, computers, groups, OU’s, really any active directory object. Now, with the rise of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) applications out there, there main way of getting data, or sending data is via XML. Now some of you might be asking, how do you create a XML file with UMRA? Simple, since UMRA has the ability to create files, you can a file called testdump.xml, and for say each record in a table of users, you can now kick this data out to your XML file, cool huh! So, now you can use UMRA Automation project to either do a hourly, daily, or whenever dump of the current data you want to get. In most cases, you can integrate this functionally into a UMRA Web Portal where you can manually call your UMRA Automation projects to go in real time and grab this data.

Now I know some of you might be asking still, how are creating XML files of Active Directory data going to help with Reporting and Auditing of your Active Directory. Again, since many applications are now using SOA Architecture, you can feed those programs directly with your real-time XML file. Or you can create your own Active Directory Reporting and Auditing UMRA Web Portal. Below are some screen shots of what I was able to create with UMRA.