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ANALYSIS
As you add more and more users to your network, administering user accounts can become a grinding, cumbersome chore. Fortunately, a new tool is now available to help you manage your resources and users. Tools4ever's UserManagemeNT Lite is a freeware utility that can help you create templates to build, manage, and remove user accounts and network resources from your network. I'm going to walk you through the ins and outs of UserManagemeNT Lite. What can UserManagemeNT Lite do?
UserManagemeNT Lite is useful in a busy enterprise environment. Although creating users and groups is the main focus of the tool, it can do much more. Used properly and exclusively in place of the Windows User Account applet, it provides many more features and an easier interface for creating users. You can configure the same properties you can with the Windows tool, but with an ease that makes this utility a must-have in any administrator's bag of tricks. UserManagemeNT Lite is available on the Tools4ever Web site. Download UMI.exe to a temporary location on your administration workstation. UserManagemeNT Lite is free, so all you have to do is register with Tools4ever by filling out its online form. Installing UserManagemeNT Lite
After you've downloaded UMI.exe, double-click on it to start the installation program. The wizard-style installation method is easy to follow. Work your way through the wizard, paying attention to the various license screens and choices for file locations along the way. During the installation, Setup will ask whether you'd like to perform a network installation, as shown in Figure A. Since you'll likely use this software in an enterprise environment, a network installation will probably suit you best. This allows the configuration files for UserManagemeNT Lite to be shared across the network.

Figure A

You can perform a network installation.

If you opt for a network configuration, you'll see the screen shown in Figure B, which lets you know that the software will use a shared directory. This is a good thing to make note of, since shares on a network can be a security risk.

Figure B

You can perform a network installation.

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