Softerra LDAP Administrator 2008 introduces a wide variety of new features and improvements with the most important shown below.
User InterfaceUser Interface Style Refresh. Now the application has friendly-looking icons, improved color palette, neat menus and more flexible customization options. Some toolbars and context menus have been reorganized to make the user interface more intuitive.
Modeless Windows. All major dialogs, frequently used windows and all property pages are now modeless, which allows working with the application without having to close them.
Docking Windows. Docking windows are useful for personalizing the application layout or arranging multiple open windows into logical groups.
Basket. A virtual container designed to allow batch modification of multiple LDAP entries from different locations, including different LDAP servers.
Browse DN Dialog. A dialog that allows choosing DNs by visually navigating through the directory tree instead of typing it manually.
Enhanced List View. A new feature has been developed allowing you to add custom columns containing attribute values to the List View. From now, you can also perform search within the List View pane using a new and handy filtering feature.
Context Sensitivity. The user interface has become sensitive to the current LDAP server, which allows showing only those commands that can be applied to this server type. Some LDAP server-specific features have been implemented.
Managing DirectoryDirectory Search. The dialog has been significantly changed and now offers the following new features:
- The dialog is now modeless and can be docked to any area of the application.
- Several instances of the dialog can be opened, an instance for each LDAP server you work with.
- Any operation like Export Data, Multiple Modification, Delete, etc. can be performed directly on your search result.
- The selection of search attributes became more effortless, the edit box of search attributes includes intellisense, drag-and-drop and embedded button, which provides an easy way of adding attributes defined by the LDAP schema.
- You are allowed to specify additional search attributes after a search is complete.
- Filtering of search results by a keyword or/and wildcard is available.
Attribute Value References. A new handy feature that allows values of one attribute to dynamically include other when creating LDAP entries from entry templates or when modifying them with the help of the Add or Modify Attribute and Multiple Modification wizards.
Multiple Modifications. The new Multiple Modification wizard has been developed to ensure an easy way for users who work collectively with several LDAP entries from various LDAP servers. Now you can apply multiple modifications to different entries at once with the help of the Multiple Modification wizard. Now, while performing such updates, you can use attribute value references.
Attribute Creation. The Attribute Modification Wizard has been improved. Now it allows adding or modifying attributes of several selected LDAP entries. While performing such updates, you can use attribute value references.
Entry Templates. The support of attribute value references has been added to entry templates thus allowing attribute values to contain values of another attributes while creating entries.
Advanced Copy. You can copy LDAP entries to the clipboard as DNs, LDAP URLs, LDIF or DSML documents by using Advanced Copy button.
Active Directory Application Partitions Management. A tool for creating, removing or managing replication of Active Directory or ADAM application partitions.
MiscellaneousModern LDAP Server Support. Various compatibility issues have been addressed to support modern LDAP servers like Sun OpenDS, Apache Directory Server, Novell eDirectory 8.8, OpenLDAP 2.4 and Active Directory 2008.
Windows Vista support. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 experience has been significantly improved.
64-bit Version. If you work with a 64-bit operation system you can fully reveal its power by using the 64-bit version of Softerra LDAP Administrator.
Persistent settings. All LDAP entries and referral settings like filter, displayed attributes, paging policy etc. are persistent and remain unchanged after the application restart.
Load/Save Configuration. Now it is possible to backup and restore all the application configuration settings.
Kerberos Based Data Encryption. Active Directory users can use LDAP traffic encyption without having to use SSL.