When a remote user has a problem or a remote machine needs attention, you need to work on them as soon as possible. Browsing through thousands of objects is not the optimal approach. Goverlan has been designed to easily and quickly access and administer any object through its search tools.
To search for an object, use the Search Panel. The Search panel allows you to search for active directory objects of any type, including containers.
To search for objects using a single search string, select the Search For option, enter the string to search for, modify the scope of the search if necessary, then click on the Search button.
Enter an IP address to resolve it to a name.
Enter a single string to search for objects whose name (common name, display name or Pre-Win2k name) includes it.
For instance:
SearchString > Starts with SearchString
*SearchString > Contains or ends with SearchString
Search*String > Starts with Search and contains or ends with String
You can specify an Active Directory attribute to search using the format: ATTRIBUTE NAME = SearchString
The following attributes are available: First name /Last name / Description / Office / Title / Department / Company / Division / Manager / Telephone number / Telephone - home / Telephone - pager / Telephone - mobile / Fax / Telephone - IP / Email / Address - Street / Address - City / Address - State / Address - Zip / Address - Country / Home directory / Profile path / Employee ID / Employee number / Employee type / DNS Name / Location / Managed by / Operating system / Operating system version
Examples:
Description= *Test Object* > returns all objects whose Description includes 'Test Object'
Operating System = *Vista* > returns all Vista machines
Profile path = *SRV_012* > returns all user accounts whose profile path points to SRV_012
You can also pre-configure search templates which can be used at any time. Search templates are more powerful than a simple search as they allow you to specify extended search criteria.
Select the Use Template option and select Manage from the selection control. Use the Search Template Manager to manage your templates. The following is an example on how to create a user search template which returns all users in the Legal department.
Click on the Add button of the Template section and click on User Template.
Enter a template name, for instance 'Legal Users'.
Click on the Add button of the Criteria section.
Select the Department attribute, set the Condition to Is (Exactly) and the value to 'Legal'. Click on OK.
Note: You can add the same attribute multiple times. For instance, you can configure the criteria to be 'Department : Starts With : Le' and 'Department : Ends With : al'.
Once a search is executed, the Objects Found section lists the resulting objects. You can simply select any object from this set and click on the Set Focus button to have Goverlan open the object's parent container and set the focus on the selected object.
The Objects Found list also allows you to perform miscellaneous administrative tasks using the context sensitive menu. Select one or more objects in the Objects Found list, right click on the mouse and select from the available tasks in the menu. Note: When selecting multiple objects, selecting objects of the same type will result in a greater set of available tasks.
You can also double click on any object to view its account information window.