Teacher wants to access active directory...

[ChrisH]

You can save the MMC and send it her.

[Geoff]

The teacher wants to be able to view pupil/staff's username, so that she can see if whatever theyre typing isnt using the correct upper or lower case characters. She wants to be able to view the usernames in a list so that at a glance she can see. what the situation is.

 

Login usernames are not case sensitive. Even so, I suspect the spreadsheet approach will work for this.

 

To top it off she'd like to be able to reset the passwords.

 

I think Delegation with a cut down MMC is the way to go with this.

[bossman]

@Olumite: I would be asking the teacher what qualifies her to ask for this and what information does she expect to glean from access to the AD.

 

Is it for some sort of research that she is doing if so setup a server on VM with all the access rights that she needs and let her play nice.

 

I think what she is asking is really outside her remit as a teacher but then that is my own views on this.

[bossman]

Sorry Geoff: didn't read your post fully.

 

I totally agree with your solution.

[Ric_]

You will need the adminpak installed on the client that you want to run your MMC from. Then simply delegate control and away you go.

[Olumite]

You will need the adminpak installed on the client that you want to run your MMC from. Then simply delegate control and away you go.

Thanks for the advice, i will deploy adminpak to the terminals that are most likely to be used by the teacher in question.

[Olumite]

Just want to express my thanks to all that offered advice to my problem.

 

Ive only been a technician for a 6-8 weeks, so I'm having to learn quickly.

 

Before this I was at uni studying Business Computing. After wasting 6 months in retail management, I wanted to try I.T. So here I am trying to get some much needed experience.

 

I find myself making use of teachers that throw up problems ive not encountered before so that I can learn whilst I go through whichever avenues that are open to me.

 

This forum has been a fountain of knowledge for me and will no doubt keep me going through the next few months.

 

Thanks again.