I just got off the phone with Daniel over at IPSwitch and asked a few
questions about automating some administration features from a remote
machine.  I can't quite figure out that why, with these options, that it
can't be done:

External SQL Database
The Remote Administration utility in the GUI
Adddomain.exe
Adduser.exe

If you convert everything over to the SQL database (which sounds nice in
theory, simply update the database for new accounts/domain), you still
need to use the *GUI* to add the domain to the registry.  By going to
SQL, you're actually disabling the only "automated" tool available,
ADDDOMAIN.EXE (which supposedly doesn't work with SQL at all).

Addomain.exe doesn't work at all from a remote machine so we're out of
luck there as well.  The only option I can think of is using the -F
option and running it every 30 seconds to scan a text file.  Is this the
only option that is available or does someone have a better answer for
this?  We've been requesting a remote version of ADDDOMAIN/ADDUSER for
years now and it has yet to come out, so I'm looking for some type of
workaround.

My other thought is writing to the registry directly from a customized
program/script with the information necessary to add a new domain.  I'm
told this is unsupported and that we're supposed to use the GUI.  Has
anybody attempted this and if so, is it reliable?  I can't figure out
why they market this product to ISP's, yet provide no centralized
administration tools.

-Mark McDonald
 
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