Password Manager

Overview of Password Manager

Management, security and self-service for end user passwords

Password Manager provides a simple, secure, self-service solution that enables end users to reset forgotten passwords, and unlock their accounts. Now your organization can implement stronger password policies while reducing help desk workload. With Password Manager, there’s no need to sacrifice security to reduce costs.

Password Manager supports a wide range of data security standards, which allows you to implement data-access policies that extend beyond the native control capabilities of Active Directory.

Strengthen data-access policies beyond AD’s native controls
Streamline help desk duties
Serve users from multiple domains — with or without trusts
Empower users to self-service basic password tasks
Extend to enterprise-wide password management

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Features

Secure data access policies
Adopt more secure data access policies beyond AD’s native controls. Security is enhanced as Password Manager helps eliminate help desk errors and the need for users to write down their passwords. Implement the entire range of security policies and ensure that passwords conform to requirements — per group or organizational unit — for password formatting and composition, history and lockout.
Streamlined help desk duties
Give administrators powerful logging and reporting features to make it easier to monitor password management activity and correct abnormalities. Customizable workflows and activities allow you to customize password policy and reset workflows to match your organization’s business needs.
Multiple domain support
Serve users from multiple domains — with or without trusts. Seamless integration with Windows, strong data encryption and secure communication are provided through support for leading technologies, such as 3DES, MD5, SSL and Microsoft’s CryptoAPI.
User self-service
Empower users with self-service capabilities to handle basic password tasks. Plus, Password Manager helps control IT costs by eliminating the need for users to make expensive calls to the help desk. Users now can enroll in and use self-service to reset their passwords or unlock accounts — and even reset passwords when their system is offline — all of which increases user productivity and reduces downtime.
Enterprise-wide password management
Extend AD-based password management to non-Microsoft operating systems — such as Unix and Linux — through integration with a set of robust tools. You can even support larger IAM initiatives and enterprise-wide password management needs. Expand password management functionality to Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS). Enable self-service unlocking of BitLocker-enabled computers.

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Configure your questions-and-answers user profile and manage your passwords.

Add New Domain

Specify the domain that will be added to the user scope.

Default Management Policies

Apply default management policies for self-service workflows. The addition of new management policies is available as well.

Password Policy

Set up the policy rules that define which passwords to accept or reject.

Report

Create reports with standard parameters to view changed passwords, users registered, profiles locked, passwords reset and accounts unlocked.

Reports List

Run reports that provide data on lists of users, summary of actions performed by each user, monthly number of users registered and more.

Question List

Specify questions that will be presented to users during registration and later when users need to unlock their accounts.

User Scope

Set the policy for which groups are allowed or denied access to the self-service site.

Q&A Profile Workflow

Drag and drop from a list of choices which activities to include in the workflow.

Manage User

Use standard tasks to manage the account and Q&A profile for each user.

Q&A Profile Captcha

Ensure user is an actual person, and not a computer, trying to access the self-service site with a challenge-response test.

Q&A Profile Security Question

Ask user to provide answers to questions that will be used later to verify the user's identity, for password reset or account unlock.

Notifications

Configure Password Manager to send user an email notification if certain pre-selected events occur.

Q&A Profile Workflow

Drag and drop from a list of choices which activities to include in the workflow.

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Specifications

Password Manager service and administration site system requirements

CPU:	800 MHz Intel Pentium®
Memory:	512 MB
Hard disk space:	250 MB
Operating system:	Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 SP2 or higher (32-Bit or 64-Bit) Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-Bit or 64-Bit) Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012
Internet information server:	Microsoft® Internet Information Server 6.0 or higher.
Web browser:	Microsoft® Internet Explorer 8.0 or 9.0
Microsoft .NET framework	Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.0
Runtime libraries	Visual C++ Runtime Libraries 2010
Acrobat reader	Acrobat® Reader® 7.0 or higher
Domain	Windows 2003 domain Windows 2008 domain

Self-Service and Help Desk sites system requirements

Web browser

Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher
Firefox® 10 or higher
Safari® 5
Chrome® 15 or higher

Password Policy Manager system requirements

Hard disk space	5 MB
Operating system:	Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 (32-Bit or 64-Bit) Windows Server 2008 (32-Bit or 64-Bit) Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012
Visual C++ runtime libraries:	Visual C++ Runtime Libraries 2010

Secure Password Extension System Requirements

Operating system	Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 Windows Vista Windows 7™ Service Pack 1 Windows 8
Web browser:	Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7.0, 8.0 or 9.0