Re: AD User Account lifecycle Management app - Possible Solutions?

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There are all kinds of third party tools already available that do what
you're after: Consider tools from Quest, CA, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and so
on.

As for languages if you decide to roll your own, I don't believe those are
listed are going to be mutually exclusive. Third party is very attractive
because of that.

I haven't seen any open source I'd recommend. I'm interested to see if any
exist, but I think it would be kind of "culturally interesting" if there
were considering that open source is known for being developer friendly in
this type of application, and then I'd have to wonder why the developer
wasn't building their own :)

"SanjayNarang" <SanjayNarang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4A47A334-8B88-4DB7-B43E-FE07874B3C5E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm bit new to AD and hence wanted to consult you guys before starting a
new
application to know what are the best options available:

We need to develop a simple user account lifecycle management application
for Active Directory based deployment. The plan is to develop a web based
interface (accessed through SharePoint 2007) for the following activities:
. Account creation/deletion (form based - for single user as well as batch
processing from a file)
. Account attributes update (form based - self & administrator batch
processing)
. Password re-issue (self)
. Password reset (administrative)
. Role/Group assignment and revocation
. Account review (e.g. get list of accounts not logged in for 90 days)

So, my questions are:

1. For custom development, I think there are three options available: LDAP
API, ADSI, .Net System.DirectoryServices namespace. Which one would be
best
choice here and why?

2. I'm sure there would be some open source or third party tools available
for these functionalities. Can you recommend some good ones?

Thanks
Sanjay
http://sanjaynarang.wordpress.com



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