Re: AD AutoScripting

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From: Kevin Stanush (kevin_at_systemtools.com)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: 21 May 2004 08:08:34 -0700

While this is a bit off-topic for this discussion and a reply is not
necessary, I'd like to point out that there are not any problems with
Hyena and Active Directory and never had been to my knowledge. I
should know: I manage the company that develops and supports Hyena and
have been involved with the product from day-one.

Since Hyena is used by hundreds of thousands of administrators every
day to manage their Windows network (including AD), we would know of
any problems rather quickly. And, we've been supporting AD for years
now; Hyena has been on the market for 7 years.

We are aware of some myths about usage of Hyena and any 3rd party tool
for Windows adminstration. Sometimes, Microsoft support technicians,
etc. shy aware from using 3rd party software. To make things worse,
if a customer has a problem and they are using a 3rd party piece of
software, most Microsoft support will first require that it be
uninstalled before helping with the problem. But this has nothing to
do with solving the problem at all.

Our support staff spend a great deal of time helping customers with
problems that have nothing to do with our software, but this is just
part of offering a product like Hyena. Hyena is entirely safe to use
in managing a Windows NT or Active Directory environment. We would
not be in business if it wasn't.

Kevin Stanush
SystemTools Software Inc.
http://www.systemtools.com
Home of 'Hyena' for Windows System Administration

"Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]" <cwshultz@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<emCb#P8MEHA.2996@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> I have read about too many problems with Hyenna and WIN2000 AD. Granted, I
> have not tried it yet. I might stick with ADModify for this to immediately
> take care of this need and play with an evaluation version of Hyenna in a
> lab environment before implementing it in a production environment.
>
> Cary
>
>

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