These days, organizations and business enterprises are expanding themselves by several proactive and fruitful measures. Organizations that follow 24X7 working schedule are looking for some useful strategies that can make their resources well utilized. They are in the track to invent new innovative ideas that can help them using the available resources, products and accessories to the fullest. The principle of ‘better the utilization of the resources, better the productivity of the organization’ is followed among all enterprises. One of such resources is computer which is very common among all the organizations of today’s world. To take full advantage of computer, multiple user accounts are created on it so that multiple users can easily work on it into their respective accounts on their working hours. However, multiple user accounts on a computer could be beneficial for an organization, but can also lead to a problem. E.g. if one of users knows the login credentials of another users then he/ she may intervene into sensitive information of the other thus, taking the advantage in a wrong way. This kind of activity generates a data security issue which also can’t be ignored.

The aforementioned problem can be resolved if logon hours are set for different user accounts. The major benefit of setting logon hours is that it will force Windows to authenticate login credentials depending on the logon hours. Once the logon time is set, a user cannot logon before the specified time even after having correct user login credentials. Thus, setting logon time would benefit in providing data security and reducing the scope of eavesdropping. But, the question is how to set the logon hours or who will be responsible for doing the duty. This task comes under administrators work and needs much experience to be executed. To set login hours in Windows, there are two strategies which allow such operations for both local and remote computers. These processes are:

1.Using Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Snap-ins

2.Using Net User Command

All the tasks that come under administrators’ responsibilities need to be performed in real time manner in order to maintain the smooth flow of information around the organization. Among all tasks there are some tasks that cannot be performed by native Active Directory management tools. Such tasks are Active Directory delegation, Active Directory automation, cross-domain management, web based administration, audit of changes etc. when number of staff count increases in an organization the possibility of overburdening of tasks at the administrators’ desks increases. Here, the importance of Active Directory management & reporting is felt which has a strong impact on the organization’s AD control issues. It is a vast network whose range of capabilities expands year after year. Various challenging AD management tasks can easily be executed with Active Directory tool.

To manage Active Directory issues, Lepide Software presents an innovative tool which is referred as Lepide Active Directory Management & Reporting. This tool is extensively built to monitor the complex functionalities of Windows administration tools. Further, this eminent tool provides centralized single platform to effectively manage network-wide organization units, computers, products and other resources.

The author of this article has dealt with various issues regarding AD management problem and suggested some useful solutions to handle them. The author has written many articles that act as the tutorials to manage active directory issues.