Z-Hire Employee Provisioning App

                            Z-Hire Employee Provisioning App

Hi Friends,

I am very thankful to my Friend Denny to share this information for my bloggers & followers.

I am going to share valuable information from one of my Friend Denny, He is the Denny, the creator 
of this free automated employee provisioning/termination app-- Z-hire. He wrote this app for 
the TechNet community a year ago.

So My Friend Denny, dedicated for you, I hope you will share more valuable information for me & my blog.

  Visit here to download this utility. Z-Hire Employee Provisioning App

Z-Hire Version 4.8.1Z-Hire automates the IT account creation process for Exchange mailbox, Active Directory,
 Lync accounts, Office 365 cloud and SalesForce cloud deployments. With just a click of the button, your
 Exchange mailbox, and Active directory and Lync acc.

Z-Hire Version 4.8.1

Z-Hire automates the IT account creation process for Exchange mailbox, Active Directory, Lync 

accounts, Office 365 cloud and SalesForce cloud deployments. With just a click of the button, 

your Exchange mailbox, and Active directory and Lync accounts will be created simultaneously. 

This app can also create and set custom settings for Office 365 accounts using templates. 

Z-Hire serves as the platform for new hire accounts by allowing auto-creation of major

 IT accounts with the option for custom scripts. Z-hire will increase your account deployment 

time by 600%, without the need for complicated and expensive identity management solutions.

 Some of the features include:

- Environment Auto detection

 (AD/Exchange/Lync/Office 365/SalesForce)
- Copy existing Active Directory User to Z-Hire Template (new in version 4.8.1)
- Support for Active Directory, Exchange, Lync 2010, Office 365 and SalesForce accounts

- Template based deployment (allows consistency for all user accounts)
- Office 365 account creation with major attributes
- Active Directory account creation with major attributes
- Active Directory group selection
- Active Directory duplicate SamAccountName verification
- Lync 2010 account creation supporting all policies
- SalesForce user creation support all major attributes
- Faster performance (compared to previous version)
- Best of all, it's freeware!

System Requirements :


- Windows 7 X64 (Domain Joined) 
- Windows Server 2008 X64 (Domain Joined) 
- Windows Server 2008 R2 X64 (Domain Joined)

Permission Requirements :

- Ability to create Active Directory user
- Ability to create Exchange Mailbox
- Ability to create / enable Lync user 

Supported Environments:

- Active Directory (all versions)

- Exchange 2007 (all versions)

- Exchange 2010 (all versions)

- Lync 2010 (both Standard and Enterprise versions)

- Office 365 Cloud

- SalesForce CRM Cloud

 Follow the screen shots to configure this utility. 

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Verified on the following platforms:

Windows Server 2012	No
Windows Server 2008 R2	Yes
Windows Server 2008	Yes
Windows Server 2003	Yes
Windows 8	No
Windows 7	Yes
Windows Vista	Yes
Windows XP	No
Windows 2000	No

This script is tested on these platforms by the author. It is likely to work on other platforms as well. If you try it

 and find that it works on another platform, please add a note to the script discussion to let others know.

 Special Thanks: Thanks to Denny to share this information with me.

Visit here to know more about this tool:

         http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Z-Hire-Employee-Provisionin-e4854d6b

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                                                              Arun Chaudhary

                                                             MCP, MCTS. MCITP

What’s new in Windows 8?

What’s new in Windows 8?

Author,

Arun Chaudhary    

MCP, MCTS, MCITP

(Exchange 2010)

Exchange Administrator, Book Writer,

 Freelancer Trainer of Exchange Server

Mail me: arunkalagarh@gmail.com

Visit me: http://exchangeby-arun.blogspot.com

About me: I am working as an Exchange Administrator & also a freelancer trainer of Exchange & other Microsoft Servers; I have 6+ years’ experience in Microsoft servers. I have written many articles on different – different topics & given Exchange Server training for more than 250 Indian & International clients.

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Hi Friends, This is my first article on Windows 8 series, soon I will publish more articles on this topic.

As you know Windows 8 is the brand new OS from Microsoft side, it includes more than 300 new features from the previous Windows OS. The major improvements around support USB 3.0, touch keyboard, file copying and many new more.

In this article, I am going to introduce you most of the brand new features of Windows 8.

1.     Windows 8 now support normal PC’s & ARM Tablets also:

First time Microsoft launches any OS which can operate on normal desktop (X-86) machines & also on ARM tablets, (know more about ARM tablets, please visit: http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2048&news=microsoft+windows+8). Windows 8 provide you more attractive work experience supporting the ARM based chipsets, touch and sensor. ARM edition of Windows 8 includes a new mode dubbed “always on, always connected” design to let tablets act like a smartphones. Tablets can remain in standby mode without disconnecting from the internet, and then can wakeup instantly.

So its mean Windows 8 is design to work seamlessly across both PCs and Arm tablets.

2.     Tiles-based User interface:

Windows 8 provide you totally different user & desktop experience by using animation-enabled user interface. The Windows 8 start menu is customizable through a mosaic of tiles, which make difference from normal desktop icons by letting you view information from Windows 8 metro style apps without actually accessing the apps. For Example: Windows 8 weather app is able to display the current temperature of city & also show you the projected temperature for the next 2 days, without requiring opening this app. A tile for Windows Live Mail will show you your latest message, while a tile for a social networking app will show you notifications.

Windows 8 users are also able to access Windows 7 apps. "Everything that runs on Windows 7 will run on Windows 8," maintained Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division, during a keynote at the Build conference. However, in order to access Windows 7 apps, you need to switch to a different built-in UI.

3.     Charms:

“Charms” is a new feature of Windows 8, which replace the windows traditional Start Bar, using charms you can easily configure different- different apps settings. You can access the charms by dragging the mouse of the bottom-left corner of the screen. On a tablet you can swipe from the right side of the screen.

4.      Snap Multi-tasking:

"Snap multitasking" is designed to make it easy to run two apps in Windows 8 side-by-side, to resize them, and to switch between them. On the right-hand side of the screen, you can snap an app into place. You can make an app smaller or larger by dragging the bar for the app. To switch between apps in Windows 8, you swipe from the left-hand part of the screen.

However, Windows 8 does not allow you to view all of your running apps on a single screen.

5.        Windows 8 Control Panel:

Microsoft has also redesigned the control panel for Windows 8.  New options include Personalize, Users, Wireless, Notifications, General, Privacy, Search, and Share.

6.       Web Navigation by Touch:

The Internet Explorer (IE) 10 browser built into Windows 8 is designed to offer faster browsing through greater hardware acceleration, along with rapid gesture-based zoom, pan, and Web site navigation.

7.      Two Touch Keyboards:

Windows 8 also contains two soft keyboards: an "enhanced" traditional keyboard, plus a new thumbs keyboard for non-touch typists. In efforts by Microsoft to make typing on a virtual keyboard faster and more accurate, the revised edition of the conventional keyboard suggests words on the screen as you type. You can then tap to select a suggested word.  Microsoft also provides a spellcheck-like feature designed to automatically correct mistyped words -- although like any other spellchecker, this feature carries the potential to cause its own errors.

The keyboards are also aimed at automatically adjusting to whatever human language you choose for Windows. These language settings will automatically apply to the entire computer, instead of only to specific apps.

8.       Enhanced Copy Experience:

Windows 8 also introduces the ability to perform all current copy operations into a single dialog box, instead of requiring you to perform file copying in separate dialog boxes for each app.

9.       Native USB 3.0 Support:

New USB 3.0 ports operate at speeds up to ten times faster than USB 2.0. To better support these speeds, Microsoft is outfitting Windows 8 with native USB 3.0 drivers.

10.   Better Support for Multiple Monitors:

Windows 8 also brings increased support for multiple monitors. The Developers Preview of the new OS includes first-time capabilities for extending the taskbar across two PCs, without any need for third-party apps. You can also stretch wallpaper across two monitors, or display the Start screen on one PC and the desktop on the other, for instance.

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