Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Bug Fix / Enhancement for Student Maintenance

I have made a couple of changes to the Student Maintenance Script which will hopefully ease some frustration with password resets, as well as give more information about the user:

Bug Fixes:
  • Resolved the problem with the user account status not being reflected correctly. Sometimes, the user account would not reflect that the account is "Locked Out" in Active Directory. This has been fixed, and the User Lockout status should show up correctly for students. 
  • The display of the Student Maintenance application was pretty bad, and would look very jumbled when viewed on a lower screen resolution. I have fixed this issue by adding an alternating line shadowing to the results, and adjusted the alignment of all the elements so that they show up in an organizer manner in almost all screen resolutions.

Enhancements:
  • One enhancement that I made was related to the display of the user's unique full name.
    Previously, the application only showed the Full Name of the user as it appeared in Aeries. The "Unique Full Username" field now shows up right above the username field, and can be useful for Mac users logging in with long name.

Planned Changes:
  • Based on some of the folder redirections, and group policies, as well as the scripting in place, I will be changing a couple of things:
    • I will be removing the "Share name" from user folders, as they are not being used for anything. All user folders are referred by the root share name: user$. After this chance, user shares can no longer be access by going to \\servername\username$ , but rather with \\servername\user$\students\username
    • I will be changing the ACLs on the student folders to give ownership of that folder to the student. This will help with folder redirection in some VM environments, as well as any other labs where we opt to do folder redirection. 
  • This change was made on 05/04/2011 @ 14:00

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