AD Self Update is designed to allow your employees to update their own information held in Active Directory, this could be telephone number, address, names changes, job title, car parking space etc. You control what your users can update.
An ideal companion to AD Phonebook our Staff Directory product, by allowing users to update their own details you can ensure your staff directory is kept up to date.
Allowing your users to update AD to risky? Why not have HR or the helpdesk staff update other users without giving them access to Active Directory Users and Computers. AD Self Update has a HR feature, grant HR (group or users) the permission to update your users in AD, need to lock it down to a select group, that can be done.
Read more about AD Self Update here.