IDEAL ADMINISTRATION

IDEAL Administration 7.0 is now ready for Windows Vista, the new Microsoft's Operating System.

We have tested IDEAL Administration, with the help of several customers using the latest Vista version in their company, and all the tests were concluding!

You can download some demonstrations of IDEAL Administration in Vista, designed by Mr Brian Cook of BC Consulting, by using these links:

• IA_Demo.zip: Interactive IDEAL Administration demonstration
• IA_Vista.zip: Remote Control using IDEAL Administration

If you are using Vista as well, don't hesitate to contact the technical support and share your comments with us.

IDEAL Administration 7.0 manages the installation and running of software and scripts on network servers and client workstations.

You can remotely install Windows patches, run scripts or update software on all the servers and client workstations in your network.

This description makes you think of IDEAL Dispatch's description, and you are right, we have added a 50 user's IDEAL Dispatch license to IDEAL Administration, without any supplement of cost!

This version 7.0 also includes a new Active Directory management for the organizational units and users, a new XP interface if this one is configured, the DEP protection verification for the Windows 2003 Server SP1 before process the user password migration, and some other improvements which are listed below.

• Computer list
  • New management to obtain the computer list in an Active Directory environment. This corrects the workstation computers listed as servers.
• Distribution
  • Installation and running of software and scripts on network servers and client workstations. Menu Distribution.
• Migration
  • Detection of DEP protection on Windows 2003 Server SP1 in order to suspend the migration of the user passwords if this one is activated. The migration of the user passwords can be done but needs to change the default configuration of the server. The software
    provides all the modifications to be carried out on the server.
• Tasks
  • Export in CSV file of the listed tasks. Button Export.
• IDEAL Directory
  • New Active Directory management for the organizational units and user accounts.
  • User password reset using the right click on the user.
  • IDEAL Directory can be executed independently without IDEAL Administration: menu Start, All programs, Pointdev, IDEAL Administration, IDEAL Directory
• XP version
  • All the graphics interface of IDEAL Administration have been modified to adopt the XP look if this one is activated on the administration station: menus, dialog boxes, etc.
• Miscellaneous

• • Some modifications and minor corrections
  • Test counter reset! It is spread over 30 test days!
  • Documentation update

IDEAL Administration 6.7 integrates the transfer of files and directories, as well as their access permissions (ACL), to all kinds of Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 servers and Windows 2008 servers.

This new functionality completes the migration functions already present in IDEAL Administration.

You can now transfer permissions keeping them as they are, making an automatic transfer, or a transfer under rules.

Automatic transfer:
When importing, IDEAL Administration searches for objects in the access permissions (Organizational Units, Computers, User Groups and Users) on the target computer.

Transfer under rules:
You define where IDEAL Administration must search for objects, based on the location(s) in the source domain(s).

Version 6.7 also includes new Active Directory management of Computer and User group objects.

• Migration
  • Migration assistant: Migration of security to files and directories. Migration menu, Migration Assistant
  • Security (ACL) transfer in files and directories. Migration menu
• Active Directory
  • New dialog boxes for the Active Directory properties of Computers and User Groups. Active Directory menu, IDEAL Directory
  • New version of the low-level Active Directory editor. In IDEAL Directory, right-click on an object and then on Edit

• Miscellaneous
  • Some modifications and minor corrections
  • Test counter reset! It is spread over 30 test days!
  • Documentation update

IDEAL Administration 6.5 includes a task manager.

The task manager allows you to store databases of information about the computers on your network.

You can interrogate the database in order to get a complete, accurate log of the tasks done or to do on one or more computers.

The database is interrogated using a multi-criteria form, making it more flexible to use.

The task manager allows you to have an accurate log of the interventions carried out or to be carried out on the computers in your network. It may also be used, for example, to store changes in hardware or software made on them.

You can also set up alerts in order to get an automatic warning of the tasks to be done.

• Tasks
  • Add a task for one or more computers in the network. Menu Tasks, Add a task
  • Multi-criteria search for tasks already stored in the database. Menu Tasks, Search for/Edit tasks
  • Automatic verification of all tasks that have reached their alert dates. Menu Tasks, List alerts
  • Setting up the task manager. Menu Tasks, Configure
  • You can also access the creation and editing of tasks by right-clicking on one or more computers, menu Tasks

• Miscellaneous
  • Some modifications and minor corrections
  • Documentation update

• Printing
  • Print preview of the different views in IDEAL Administration and IDEAL Directory
  • Print different views in IDEAL Administration and IDEAL Directory
  • Default printer setup
• IDEAL Directory
  • New toolbars for managing computers, groups and users
• IDEAL Admin Pack
  • Run IDEAL Migration and IDEAL Dispatch software from IDEAL Administration. IDEAL Admin Pack menu
  • Download IDEAL Administration, IDEAL Migration and IDEAL Dispatch software from IDEAL Administration. IDEAL Admin Pack menu, Download
• Miscellaneous
  • Some modifications and minor corrections
  • Test counter reset! It is spread over 30 test days!
  • Documentation update