Using the built-in Windows administration tools to manage a medium-to-large Windows network can be a challenge.

Hyena is designed to both simplify and centralize nearly all of the day-to-day management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration. This functionality is provided in a single, centralized, easy-to-use product. Hyena uses an Explorer-style interface for all operations, including right-mouse-click pop-up context menus for all objects. Management of users, groups (both local and global), shares, domains, computers, services, devices, events, files, printers and print jobs, sessions, open files, disk space, user rights, messaging, exporting, job scheduling, processes, and printing are all supported. Version 4.2 has added extensive support for Windows Active Directory (AD) and its components such as organizational units, universal groups, contacts, flexible AD queries, Exchange 2000 mailbox management, and much more. The new Windows 2000 object class uses LDAP queries to Active Directory to display domain sub-objects such as containers, OUs, All Users, All Groups, and Universal Groups objects. Hyena now meets the Designed for Microsoft Windows XP Logo requirements.