"... with User Manager Pro Suite we can update our administrator passwords on every system in just 15 minutes. We haven’t had a single instance of a compromised password since we’ve used this solution."

Eric Rollins | Technical Analyst
Shands HealthCare
USE CASE: Prevent Malware from Executing

So let me ask you something: What if you're being attacked by malware or a virus and you need to stop all tasks running, without installing anything on your network?

Imagine if you will... an employee downloads a virus that reboots a Windows machine every minute. GUESS WHAT? A patch from Microsoft takes 10 minute to install, so how are you going to install it if the system is rebooting every minute? Will you have to reimage all your machines? NOT IF YOU HAVE USER MANAGER PRO SUITE with Cratering!

We have a patent for just this scenario called Cratering. We can stop zero day attacks. We can stop viruses that activate on certain days, and viruses that are not well characterized. We identify the payload that is causing the problem, then Crater it and quench the outbreak. We KILL IT INSTANTLY! How? By setting access controls on the virus file to no access so no one can install it and it can't run anymore. We literally break the key in the lock. Hallelujah!
USE CASE: Show Me Who Has Access To What

Just for grins, let’s imagine your auditor comes to you with a problem (shocker). He remembers an IT person who used to work for the company he thinks added back door accounts to different machines. Yeah, I know – what does he know?

You have to try to appease your auditor even if he thinks a bunch of rogue users have been adding different accounts to different machines that shouldn't have done so. He asks, “Can you tell me which accounts are on which machines and what's not supposed to be there?” Not too demanding is he… he just wants to see what’s there and what shouldn’t be there. Fine!

To write a script to get this information would take – what – forever since you have A LOT of machines and accounts. GUESS WHAT? User Manager Pro Suite has an Accounts Report that tells you who has access to what. So you run an Accounts Report for your auditor and it takes you less than a minute.

Check it out! Look at all those accounts that have access to machines that aren't supposed to be there. How to fix? Simply right click and delete the accounts that should be gone.

Where do you get equivalent functionality? NO WHERE. We're the only ones who do this so thank your auditor for his 5 minutes and tell him to bugger off. You’ve given him exactly what he wanted – “All’s Well That Ends Well.”
USE CASE: Find Out What Is Being Shared On Your Network

Imagine if you will… Being asked by your auditors the following question: “Can you tell me what's being shared out on our network? What are users sharing? Music? Data? Sensitive documents? Customer data? Customer purchasing history? R&D?”

Now imagine you saying, "You know, I was evaluating this tool called User Manager Pro Suite (UMPS) and was told I could get a list of all shares on our network. Let's fire it up and see!”

You don't believe what you find: employees are sharing music, programs, porn, copyrighted material you didn't license that doesn't belong to you (like analyst reports) and more.

The auditor asks, “Do you have a list of machines that are sharing content?” Thankfully, you’re running UMPS so you have not only the list of machines, but all users associated with them.

PS – If you’re running Windows 7, you need to know what’s being shared!

With UMPS you can run a report and stop the unwarranted sharing immediately. You simply highlight all the shares that aren't supposed to be out there, right click and delete! And they're – poof – gone. How long does that take? You’re already done! The data is still there, it's just not being shared anymore… Amen.
USE CASE: Tell Me Everyone Who Has Administrative Access

Imagine if you will… acquiring (or being acquired by) another company. The IT shop at the other company does things differently (no surprise). They have different policies regarding what users can do on machines. So the question is: who's allowed to administer these machines?

First of all, who is an administrator? And, who's in the power user group? You need to know who has elevated rights on all these machines. You need to know all their groups and all their memberships. Well GUESS WHAT? They've got thousands of users and groups and they have no frickin’ idea who has admin access to what. And now it’s your job to fix it. What fun (not).

Chin up because User Manager Pro Suite (UMPS) has this really cool Advanced Local Group Membership Report that tells you in real time who's a local administrator of every machine, both users and groups. It produces a report of every member of administrator groups across all machines.

Well, look at that! There are all these groups on all these machines that shouldn't be there. And there are groups that should be there but aren’t. That’s SO WRONG. To write a script to fix this would take months. With UMPS, all you have to do is highlight all the groups that aren't supposed to be there, right click and delete! The memberships to those machines are gone. Now you can highlight machines that are supposed to be administrator groups, right click and add! Within minutes, everything is fixed and you are off to lunch – with time to spare.
USE CASE: Automate Windows Administration Tasks

There are a number of so-called "free tools", such as Group Policy and scripts, at your disposal. The problem with free is that you usually end up paying in the end – in man hours. Have you ever run a script against 5,000 computers only to have number 1,941 fail and bring the whole script to
a screeching halt? Have you ever run a script against 5,000 systems that failed but you can’t figure out why because there’s no documentation?

Group Policy also has its issues. Has Group Policy ever failed to apply your settings with an error that says "."? Have you ever set a script to run via Group Policy only to find that machines don’t get rebooted on time so you get the Zotob virus (or something worse)?

User Manager Pro Suite (UMPS) addresses all of these issues and more. Because it’s a multi-threaded tool, if any system(s) should fail during its operation, the failure will not affect the running of UMPS or that job. If any system(s) should fail, UMPS will tell you the reason why and allow you to retry the operation on those systems which failed. UMPS is also an active management solution that relies on Windows components found in every base installation of the operating system. When you need to schedule and force a reboot, UMPS can do it and log the result. If the operation wasn't successful, it can tell you why. UMPS can also force updates to the required systems at any time, meaning you don't have to wait for them to reboot to secure your network.

UMPS can do much more. It can manage users, passwords, groups, group memberships, registry, patches, reboots, auditing, rights, and reporting. Finally, UMPS includes comprehensive reporting that can show you all aspects of any portion of your system - from users to groups to shares to NTFS security permissions to files to WMI and more. All of this functionality is included in UMPS and done without the use of agents.
USE CASE: Generate Audit & Compliance Reports
One thing auditors need is information, lots of it, and they need it immediately. User Manager Pro Suite (UMPS) includes a complete reporting suite that allows you to report on any aspect of your Windows systems. Some of the most praised reports are the Group Memberships Reports — when you need to know who is a member of the administrators group on every system; Users Report — when you need to find and disable all accounts whose passwords are more than 90 days old; and NTFS Permissions Reporting — when you need to know everywhere that the EVERYONE group is granted permissions.

Auditors require anytime, anywhere access to this information. With Web Reporting, the reports you run or schedule can be accessed in a fully audited and delegated web interface. This allows your auditors to view the reports anytime, anywhere and to filter the information that they desire.

Finally, auditors require remediation of the problems they find. UMPS reports are interactive. Almost every report can also perform a management action. For example, if you run a Users Report to find those users whose passwords are 90 days or older, you can disable those accounts directly.