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SQL
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PostPosted: 11:19 - 20 Jun 2015    Post subject: WebGUI for resetting AD passwords Reply with quote
Hi Guys,

tl;dr I want a webGUI that can reset AD passwords halp

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I have knocked up a front end for someone that wants to be able to reset users AD passwords from a webGUI.

The site is basically a form with 3 boxes and a submit button, I want to be able to reset AD passwords from this form for example.

Username [DOGE]
Password [DogetheD0g123]
Security checksum [Somethingherehaventworkeditoutyet]

Submit

Has anyone on here attempted to do this? the end goal is that users will be able to reset their passwords without even coming in the office, just using a tablet/laptop, mounted on a wall.

Is it possible to make a form that will submit the data as code into powershell?

Is possible? Is not possible?

Many thanks, much wows.

SQL

P.S I am not asking someone to code it for me just a general nudge into the correct direction would be fantastic.
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PostPosted: 11:47 - 20 Jun 2015    Post subject: Re: WebGUI for resetting AD passwords Reply with quote
SQL wrote:
Hi Guys,

tl;dr I want a webGUI that can reset AD passwords halp

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have knocked up a front end for someone that wants to be able to reset users AD passwords from a webGUI.

The site is basically a form with 3 boxes and a submit button, I want to be able to reset AD passwords from this form for example.

Username [DOGE]
Password [DogetheD0g123]
Security checksum [Somethingherehaventworkeditoutyet]

Submit

Has anyone on here attempted to do this? the end goal is that users will be able to reset their passwords without even coming in the office, just using a tablet/laptop, mounted on a wall.

Is it possible to make a form that will submit the data as code into powershell?

Is possible? Is not possible?

Many thanks, much wows.

SQL

P.S I am not asking someone to code it for me just a general nudge into the correct direction would be fantastic.


I created something like this many moons ago, however my small web app was a complete self-service portal allowing users to change their AD attributes, update their company photo (thumbnailPhoto LDAP attribute) and a range of other cool things.

My first question would be do you only need a site so users can reset their AD passwords or do you need a self service portal, i.e are you going to want develop the webGUI further in the future? If the answer is no I suggest you consider a off the shelf solution, many exist and have solved this very problem already.

An example of a product that does this well in my opinion:
https://www.manageengine.com/products/self-service-password/

If you are going to develop the site in the future I suggest a small web app using ASP.NET MVC or Webforms written in either C# or VB.net (go with C# for the language and choose ASP.NET MVC for the framework, Webforms is a dieing technology).

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Is it possible to make a form that will submit the data as code into powershell?


I don't believe there is a way of doing this and even if there was I don't believe it's the right approach.

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Is possible? Is not possible?


Very possible but will take some time to develop properly, as already suggested I would seriously consider an off the shelf solution if you just need to give users the ability to reset their password.

Last thing is that an important consideration to make is how to verify the person changing the accounts password is genuinely the owner of the account, the way I've done this in the past is to store both the users personal email address (for verification and alerting purposes) and 3 security questions and answers of their choice in a Database, that way when someone requests a password reset the webapps logic can verify it's the account owner.

I have all the source code for the self service portal I did a while ago on a memory stick somewhere if you would like me to send it across so you can take alook.
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PostPosted: 15:14 - 20 Jun 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
It will eventually become more than just passwords, I want to do this as a webapp style. The current implementation is shocking.

If you could send the source that would be great if you have it, I did look at the "off the shelf" product however the customisation was quite limited.
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PostPosted: 15:30 - 22 Jun 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
We use this, https://www.anixis.com/ Depending on the users you have it may be cheaper to buy it in rather than spend the time writing it.
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PostPosted: 17:09 - 22 Jun 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Does spiceworks not tie in with AD ?
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PostPosted: 17:54 - 22 Jun 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
May have solved this accidentally, as we are currently upgrading to AAD and going to be moving from FIM to MIM there seems to be a BYOD solution built in.

However I feel it would still be beneficial while we wait for the upgrade as that could be 2016 at some point (I think).

As for buying something in we have over 2k users so gets expensive quickly the powers that be won't see that us manually resetting passwords is enough to justify a cost, if it ain't broke don't fix it and all that, however half of our calls are password related so as a project I wanted to do this.

Cansa as for AD tying in with spiceworks not quite sure where you are going with that is there a self service portal with spiceworks?

That could be interesting as we do currently have spiceworks however I don't manage it.
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PostPosted: 18:17 - 22 Jun 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
SQL wrote:
Cansa as for AD tying in with spiceworks not quite sure where you are going with that is there a self service portal with spiceworks?

That could be interesting as we do currently have spiceworks however I don't manage it.


Yes there is.

Chuck this little ballache of a project over to the Spiceworks guys Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:38 - 22 Jun 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
SQL wrote:
Cansa as for AD tying in with spiceworks not quite sure where you are going with that is there a self service portal with spiceworks?

That could be interesting as we do currently have spiceworks however I don't manage it.


Yes there is.

Chuck this little ballache of a project over to the Spiceworks guys Thumbs Up


I shall investigate, do you know whats it called, all I can find referenced is Manage Engines AD Self Service only licences up to 50 people free, is there something native in Spiceworks so I can go to them install "X" module please, If you don't know thats cool, Ill drop our spiceworks contact an e-mail as we only use spiceworks for server reporting according to the dudes that manage it..
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PostPosted: 19:01 - 22 Jun 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
SQL wrote:
I shall investigate, do you know whats it called, all I can find referenced is Manage Engines AD Self Service only licences up to 50 people free, is there something native in Spiceworks so I can go to them install "X" module please, If you don't know thats cool, Ill drop our spiceworks contact an e-mail as we only use spiceworks for server reporting according to the dudes that manage it..


I'm trying to remember the name of the spiceworks plugin i used a few years back, but alas... my memory fails me.

I'll have a dig about later and see if i can find it.
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PostPosted: 22:15 - 22 Jun 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
SQL wrote:
I shall investigate, do you know whats it called, all I can find referenced is Manage Engines AD Self Service only licences up to 50 people free, is there something native in Spiceworks so I can go to them install "X" module please, If you don't know thats cool, Ill drop our spiceworks contact an e-mail as we only use spiceworks for server reporting according to the dudes that manage it..


I'm trying to remember the name of the spiceworks plugin i used a few years back, but alas... my memory fails me.

I'll have a dig about later and see if i can find it.


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