AD Bulk Export version 4

August 21, 2011

AD Bulk Export version 4 the latest version of our Active Directory export tool is now available to download. It is a significant upgrade over version 3, to start with version 4 is now 1500% quicker and uses 75% less RAM!

AD Bulk Export version 4

You can now select a mix of OUs and groups to retrieve the users, contacts, groups or computer from using our suberb new AD tree browser.

Version 4 now contains a built-in scheduler so you can easily schedule exports of data from Active Directory at intervals you decide. You can now export Excel (.xls) and PDF as well as CSV, database export now includes Oracle databases as well as SQL.

AD Bulk Export 4 Scheduler

We’ve built-in some a fantastic new filter which makes it easy to get to the data you need, the filter also works from the command line and scheduler.

AD Bulk Export 4 Filter

Click the following link to read more http://www.dovestones.com/products/Active_Directory_Export.asp.
You can download AD Bulk Export 4 now from http://www.dovestones.com/demos.asp.

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Happy New Year Everyone

January 1, 2011

Happy New Year everyone, all the very best for 2011. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas wherever you are in the world and hope 2011 will be a great year for you. 2011! We look forward to introducing some great new products in 2011 and releasing new versions of existing products. If you have any product suggestions or feature requests as always please feel free to send them to us.

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AD Bulk Users and thumbnailPhoto

June 21, 2010

AD Bulk Users 3.3.1.5 is now available, in this incremental release it is now possible to import photos for into the thumbnailPhoto attribute, this has become popular recently with Microsoft using the thumbnailPhoto attribute in Outlook 2010. AD Bulk Users will check you are using a .jpg image and that the image size is smaller than 10KB and its dimensions are less than 96 x 96 pixels, whilst on the subject of photos it’s worth pointing out that support for the jpegPhoto attribute was added back in April this supports a bigger image (25KB and 200×200 pixels) but note this isn’t used by Outlook 2010.

Changing the sAMAccountName (logon name) in bulk

With this release it is now possible to change a users logon name by updating the sAMAccountName attribute (shown as ‘User logon name pre-Windows 2000′ in Active Directory Users and Computers), to change the logon name use a CSV file similar to the one below, add the new logon names to the newsAMAccountName column.

CSV file to change sAMAccountName

After the import the log will show the users logon names have been changed.

Log showing logon name change

As always if you have any questions or feature requests please get in touch.

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AD Photos updated

May 31, 2010

Now your users can put a face to a name by using Outlook 2010, one of many great new feature in Outlook 2010 is the ability to view a small photo of other users. This is done by reading the photo from Active Directory, the thumbnailPhoto attribute has been available in Active Directory since Windows 2000 but no Microsoft products (that I know of!) have used it until now.

thumbnailPhoto attribute displayed in Outlook 2010

thumbnailPhoto attribute displayed in Outlook 2010

With AD Photos we’ve created a simple but incredibly useful tool for importing single and multiple photos into Active Directory, you can view existing photos stored in AD and remove them if needed. The ability to import photos in bulk is very useful if you’re planning on making the most of Outlook 2010 and adding a photo of all your users to AD.

Active Directory Photo Import

AD Photos, import photos in to Active Directory.

We’ve just updated AD Photos to version 1.5.1, read more about AD Photos and download the trial version by clicking the URL below.
http://www.dovestones.com/products/Active_Directory_jpegPhoto_thumbnailPhoto.asp

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AD Bulk Contacts 3.2 now supports Exchange 2010

January 12, 2010

AD Bulk Contacts now includes support for Exchange 2010, note the Exchange 2010 management tools can only be installed on Windows 7, Vista SP2, Windows 2008 SP2, 2008 R2.

Exchange 2010 Support

Microsoft Technet article on how to Install the Exchange 2010 Management Tools:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232090.aspx

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AD Bulk Users, 10x faster and support for Exchange 2010

January 6, 2010

Happy New Year!

AD Bulk Users 3.3 is now available, in this release we’ve made some changes to the way AD Bulk Users creates new users and we’ve gained a significant speed increase, approx 10x faster in our tests when compared to the previous version, for those that import a large number of users on a regular basis this is a big improvement.

Microsoft Exchange 2010 is now supported!

AD Bulk Users now includes support for Exchange 2010, perfomance when creating mailboxes during import is the same as it was for 2007, from what we’ve seen so far Exchange 2010 is an all round improvement on Exchange 2007 however it’s worth noting the Exchange 2010 management tools can only be installed on Windows 7, Vista SP2, Windows 2008 SP2, 2008 R2.

Microsoft Technet article on how to Install the Exchange 2010 Management Tools:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232090.aspx

Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7

We’ve also made some improvements to how the program runs on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. As always if you have any questions please get in touch.

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Importing users with duplicate names

November 20, 2009

When importing a large number of users into Active Directory it is possible that 2 or more users will share the same name. When using AD Bulk Users the users first name (givenName attribute) and second name (sn attribute) are used internally by the program to construct the Common-Name (cn attribute), this cn value is used by Active Directory to construct the distinguishedName which has to be unique as its value is the path to the user object, for example  ‘CN=John Smith,OU=Managers,DC=domain,DC=com’.

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Using AD Bulk Users to update Exchange Storage Limits

November 19, 2009

In the latest build of AD Bulk Users we’ve added support setting the Exchange Storage Limits, these limits are stored in the attributes mDBStorageQuota (Issue warning at), mDBOverQuotaLimit (Prohibit send at) and mDBOverHardQuotaLimit (Prohibit send and receive at).

Exchange Storage Limits

The check box ‘Use mailbox store defaults’ shown above is toggled on and off using the attribute mDBUseDefaults, so to set non default storage limit we need to set mDBUseDefaults to FALSE. If you want to turn the default storage limits back on just set mDBUseDefaults to TRUE in the CSV file.

Below is an example CSV file that would set ‘Prohibit send and receive at (KB):’ to 1Gb, 2GB and 3GB for the 3 users in the file. The sAMAccountName is the users logon name and is used to locate the user in Active Directory, the Modify column tells the program we are modifying an existing user.

Storage Limits CSV

In my example above a 1Gb quota may be too low for some, if a user receives 100 x 50k messages a day for 30 days this would consume 150MB, or 1.8GB over a year.

All the best.

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Automatically update e-mail addresses based on recipient policy?

October 24, 2009

When importing new users (or modifying existing users) with an Exchange mailbox  you may not want to have the Exchange recipient policy update the e-mail addresses for those users, by default when AD Bulk Users creates the mailbox ‘Automatically update e-mail addresses based on recipient policy’ is checked i.e. TRUE, to prevent this being set add a column to your CSV file entitled AutoUpdateOnRecipientPolicy and set the value to FALSE.

Click here for an example CSV file.

The result of setting AutoUpdateOnRecipientPolicy to FALSE is ‘Automatically update e-mail addresses based on recipient policy’ is unchecked meaning the recipient policy won’t update the mailbox for the user.

Automatically-update-e-mail-addresses-based-on-recipient-policy

All the best.

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Append, Drop and Truncate with AD Bulk Export 3.0.7.2

September 27, 2009

This latest release of AD Bulk Export includes a couple of minor bug fixes and a change to the way saving to a SQL database can be done. Two new command line arguments have been added, these are /dropTable and /truncateTable, you can also enable these options via the GUI in the  ‘Options’ section of the ‘Save to Database’ window.

By default the data pulled from Active Directory will be appended to the table this can now be changed by using the command line arguments /dropTable or /truncateTable or by selecting either of  the two options in the GUI. By checking ‘Drop table first’ the program will delete the table and then recreate the table before inserting the data pulled from Active Directory. Checking ‘Truncate table first’ will delete the table rows but leave the columns intact, this is especially useful if you are going to add custom columns. Both options are retained when the program is closed and reopened.

AD Bulk Export, Saving to SQL

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