Automated provisioning

Setting up new accounts and provisioning hardware are tedious tasks, and mistakes can lead to weak security. In this lesson, Laura E. Hunter, senior IT specialist with the University of Pennsylvania, explains how to leverage directory services and policies to automate this task. Also learn how to utilize Active Directory to automate provisioning and how the provisioning market place is taking shape.    Webcast: Leveraging directory services to automate provisioning    Technical article: Utilizing Active Directory to automate provisioning    Podcast: Analysis of the automated provisioning market place    Quiz    About the instructor	MAIN MENU
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Webcast: Leveraging directory services to automate provisioning
Length: 60 minutes
In this webcast, Hunter explains how to implement automated provisioning. Learn what automating can do to ease the administrative burden of new account and hardware provisioning, how Active Directory can help with the automation of provisioning and what additional components are needed to make the process work.

Technical article: Utilizing Active Directory to automate provisioning
In this article, Hunter focuses on utilizing Active Directory and Group Policy to automate provisioning. Learn what additional components are needed, Group Policy's role in the automation process, the limitations of Active Directory, design parameters and more.

Podcast: Analysis of the automated provisioning market place
Length: 10 minutes
Provisioning has been a manual operation for years, but that's starting to change. In this podcast, Hunter discusses how vendors are just starting to see provisioning automation as a potential market sector.

Quiz
Take this five-question quiz to see how much you've learned about automated provisioning.

About the instructor Laura E. Hunter, CISSP, MCSE: Security, MCDBA, Microsoft MVP, is a senior IT specialist with the University of Pennsylvania, where she provides network planning, implementation and troubleshooting services for business units and schools within the university. Hunter is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" award in the area of Windows Server-Networking. She is the author of the Active Directory Field Guide (APress Publishing).