AD Self Service provides a SharePoint active directory web part that allow current login user to see and modify his/her own Active Directory information through SharePoint. You can add this web part to a page, on which you want users to edit their AD information, and configure it properly. After that, when a user log in and enter this page, the SharePoint AD Self Service web part will automatically detect current login user and domain, then retrieve his/her information from Active Directory to SharePoint and show them in this SharePoint active directory web part. If the properties are editable, user can edit it, and click "Save" button to save his changes to AD, then a message about this operation will be shown.

SharePoint AD Self Service can:

Gather information from Active Directory for SharePoint current login user and display it in the web part.

Enables users to modify their information in this SharePoint active directory web part and directly save to Active Directory.

User information displayed in web part can be configured in 3 access level: Editable, Read Only and Invisible.

SharePoint AD Self Service web part provides a flexible management solution for information accessibility. Every property can be configured as editable, read only (user can view rather than edit) or invisible (show nothing about it) in the web part tool pane.

With SharePoint AD Self Service as well as Password Change, administrators save their time a lot by giving users proper permission to manage their own password and information of Active Directory through SharePoint action.

Why Did We Build It?

SharePoint users are managed in Active Directory usually. It takes domain administrators a lot of time to enter the user information, check the user information and track information changes. To solve this problem, they need an Employee Self Service (ESS) tool which allows employees to change their own information such as address and contact details. In SharePoint we provide the AD Self Service Web Part.

The Following is a guide of SharePoint AD Self Service.

1. Add AD Self Service web part

Open the site which you want to edit Active Directory users’ information. Click Edit Page on Site Actions menu.

Then, click Add a Web Part button to open the Add Web Parts - - Webpage Dialog.

In Add Web Parts - - Webpage Dialog, select the AD Self Service checkbox in SharePointBoost Web Parts group and then click the Add button, AD Self Service Web Part will be added on the page.

2. Configure account information

After adding the AD Self Service web part, click open the tool pane hyper link to configure account information for AD Self Service.

On the AD Self Service page, input the Username and the Password of Active Directory. This account can modify user’s AD information, and it is different from the SharePoint site collection user.

Note: The account to modify user’s AD information must be the member of Domain Admins permission.

If the account isn’t the member of Domian Admins, it’s not allowed to modify the AD information on the web.

3. Modify AD account information

After configuring account information, SharePoint site collection users can modify their AD information with AD Self Service web part.

For instance, when Jerry log on the site page, the AD Self Service web part will show Jerry’s AD information automatically, and he will be able to modify his AD information. He adds his email address on the web part and saves it.

Turn to Active Directory page, the email address has been modified.

4. Property Edit Type

Users who have the permission to edit the web part can change the properties’ type. There are three types of property: Editable, Read Only and Invisible, the default type for all properties is Editable.

On Edit Page, click the “Modify Shared Web Part” menu item on the edit drop-down menu.

Set E-Mail property Read Only and Web Page Invisible.

After configuration, the E-Mail address is read only, and the Web Page is invisible.

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Support Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese.

System Requirements

Operating System:	Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x86/x64 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x86/x64
Server:	SharePoint Release: - Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Microsoft .NETs Framework 2.0 or 3.0 Note: This product is not compatible with SPS 2003 and WSS v2
Browser:	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or greater is recommended for Advanced Administration features

Release Notes

1.2.820.0 Aug 21st, 2009	Licensing module upgraded.
1.1.609.0 Jun 9th, 2009	New Feature: - Support Japanese. Bug Fixed: - Scrollbar could not show when users using IE6.
1.1.521.0 May 22nd, 2009	Licensing module upgraded.
1.0.225.0 Feb 27th, 2009	Initial Release

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