windows 2003 resetting passwords

[billb]

Hiya,

if i want to delgate some jobs like reseting passwords, unlocking users whats the best way of doing it? i know u can give someone an mmc but doesnt this mean u have to give them the admin tools too which i dont wanna put on every machine?

any help apprec ta

[malman]

I seem to remember you can give them a taskpad that has just the functions you want them to have

[billb]

malman said:

I seem to remember you can give them a taskpad that has just the functions you want them to have

but as i understand it you have to load on the admin tools for this to work on a pc?

[_DeeJay_]

billb said:

malman said: I seem to remember you can give them a taskpad that has just the functions you want them to have but as i understand it you have to load on the admin tools for this to work on a pc?

You do, though it's not a massively difficult task to do (you could place adminpak.msi on a file share somewhere and have your mini-admins install it).

Failing that, write something in VBscript to do it (which again, is relatively simple). The last time I did this, I wrote a few .asp pages and web enabled it.

Speaking of which, I seem to remember Microsoft releasing a free set of web pages, try searching on their site for Web Admin or something similar....

D

[_DeeJay_]

billb said:

malman said: I seem to remember you can give them a taskpad that has just the functions you want them to have but as i understand it you have to load on the admin tools for this to work on a pc?

You do, though it's not a massively difficult task to do (you could place adminpak.msi on a file share somewhere and have your mini-admins install it).

Failing that, write something in VBscript to do it (which again, is relatively simple). The last time I did this, I wrote a few .asp pages and web enabled it.

Speaking of which, I seem to remember Microsoft releasing a free set of web pages, try searching on their site for Web Admin or something similar....

D