IP Address Management in Microsoft Environment
EfficientIP Real World Results in Active Directory Environment
As an answer to the growth of Microsoft services in the companies’ market, EfficientIP adapts its products to Microsoft environment. Thus, IPManager drives Microsoft® DNS&DHCP servers and is fully interfaced with Microsoft Active Directory® (AD). EfficientIP’s management tools are directly connected on original Microsoft’s DNS and DHCP engines in order to drive them from a centralized database.
Do not change your Microsoft DNS & DHCP server architecture
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Active Directory (AD) locator in Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. Active Directory clients and client tools use DNS to locate domain controllers for administration and logon. DNS server must be installed and configured for Active Directory and the associated client software in order to provide location properties.
From a technical point of view, Microsoft services and clients are strongly integrated. This permits the users to exploit high added value features such as simplicity of deployment and of administration. Because many companies have built their networks on Microsoft services, it is not always conceivable or acceptable to reconsider the already existent investments and architectural choices. EfficientIP solutions —software and appliances— with IPManager are implemented on an above layer of your Microsoft DNS & DHCP servers without modifying your architecture. You can, at anytime take back the administration of the services thanks to the original tools provided by Microsoft.
Join IP address management with Microsoft DHCP configuration
Microsoft provides efficacious tools to manage DHCP servers one at a time. However, they cannot manage to administer them in a global way. EfficientIP helps the administrators to unify their Microsoft DHCP servers, to globalize the reservations and the dynamic pools through the addressing space of the company. EfficientIP solutions permit you to administrate the full coherency of your addressing plan. This, by associating global management of your IP addresses with the configuration of your Microsoft DHCP servers. Thanks to this consolidated documentation —static and dynamic IP’s— you have the capacity to generate reports and obtain a global vision of the distribution of your addresses.
Update your Multi-Masters DNS in real time
EfficientIP is conscious that companies want to keep the full integration of Microsoft components in their Active Directory architecture. EfficientIP has implemented in its products, the protocols used by Microsoft in order to configure remotely DNS servers. These protocols based on strong authentications, integrate the components of the Active Directory architecture and Name Controllers. IPManager solutions —software or appliance— automatically update your multi-masters DNS servers by an authentication in the Controller Domain. These modifications are instantaneously taken into account and ready to use on your servers without waiting for the synchronization with Active Directory.
Keep the control with Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
Because it is necessary to manage the DNS & DHCP from the MMC console provided by Microsoft, EfficientIP integrated in its implementation the capacity to take into account in its database, all the modifications realized from the MMC console. EfficientIP’s solution authorizes simultaneous modifications from the MMC Microsoft® administration console and from the IPManager console.
