You could look at pre-populating the location field for printer searches. This is quite a nice feature that uses the IP subnet of the workstation the user is logged on to to locate the nearest printer. There's a few tasks you need to do to enable this, but it can be worth the effort, especially in distributed organisations. See the following whitepaper for more information on this.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/fileandprint/print/addeplo y.asp As you suggest, there are not a huge number of benefits that are directly visible to the end user. Tony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carerros, Charles Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 3:05 a.m. To: '[email protected]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Enhancement Question This is an odd question. We have just about finished up rolling out AD 2003 (from an NT domain) and I have been charged with finding "several ways to utilize Active Directory to optimize the management of our applications and infrastructure. At least one of the solutions should enhance functionality directly for the user community." I'm having problems of finding ways to enhance functionally for the end-users. Besides tying the AD into a one of our outsourced web based applications to reduce their password count I'm stretching. I know of a number of management and infrastructure enhancements that could be made but none enhance the functionality of our end-users to a point where they will notice it and say "Wow, now that's cool". Does anyone know of a location where I can get ideas on this topic? Increased security, stability, management. These core things are not seen by the end-user even though they directly affect them. I need to find something that the end-users will like to see and something that benefits them. I'm just coming up blank on this. In the past, I have always been instructions to use AD in ways that the end-user doesn't notice but increases the functionality. Thanks, Charlie List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
