ADManager Plus
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Unified Active Directory and Microsoft 365 management and reporting solution
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Features
51 features across 15 categories
Access Control(1)
Create customized roles and assign them to desired users to empower them to perform specific AD tasks
Auditing(1)
Get information on all actions performed by help desk technicians and roles including creating, modifying, deleting technicians
Automation(6)
Set rules to automatically assign tasks to technicians based on action, domain, or priority
Effortlessly automate user creation in AD, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other enterprise applications
Declutter AD environment by identifying stale accounts and deprovisioning them
Provision and deprovision users in AD and external enterprise applications using webhook and orchestration templates
Add users to groups and automatically revoke their group memberships after a specified period
Identify inactive users and revoke their Office 365 licenses automatically
Backup & Recovery(3)
Protect against data loss disasters by creating backups of AD objects and recover them with all their attributes intact
Backup Azure AD objects like users, groups, devices, applications, domains, service principals, and directory roles with restoration of entire objects or specified attributes
Back up all items in Gmail, Calendar, and User Drive data. Restore any data when necessary regardless of deletion timing
Compliance(3)
Run automatic certification campaigns to assign certifiers to review users' AD and Microsoft 365 access permissions at specified intervals
Ensure compliance with GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA and other mandates through risk assessment and access certification campaigns
Use AD Workflow as an IT compliance tool to get list of all requests created, approved, executed, or rejected for verification during audits
Delegation(2)
Set administrative boundaries such as OUs or domains while delegating tasks to technicians
Give help desk technicians power to perform AD tasks without altering their permissions in AD
Infrastructure(1)
Load balancing capabilities for managing infrastructure
Integration(1)
Integration with various enterprise applications for identity management
Management(12)
Manage AD users in bulk using predefined options, templates, and CSV files. Enable or disable users, manage photos, move users
Manage AD computers and computer accounts
Manage AD contact objects
Create and manage AD groups including security groups and distribution lists
Migrate Active Directory objects and configurations
Manage organizational units and their structures
Easily manage AD users, groups, computers without using PowerShell scripts
Manage Exchange Server environments through the ADManager Plus platform
Effortlessly set, modify, or revoke NTFS and share permissions across AD folders and files in bulk
Create, link, enable or disable, delete, and force update GPOs in bulk without PowerShell scripts
Gain full visibility into Microsoft 365 environment with prebuilt, script-free reports on users, licenses, mailboxes, groups, contacts
Manage multiple AD domains from a single console
Notifications(2)
Update relevant users about completed Active Directory management tasks via email and SMS
Receive email or SMS notifications after each step of processing a request including creation, review, approval, execution, or rejection
Reporting(10)
Generate AD user logon reports on last logon time, inactive users, logon hours, never logged on users without scripting
Generate comprehensive reports on AD users, groups, GPOs with 200+ prebuilt reports. Schedule and export in desired formats
Generate extensive AD user reports on user account status, password expiration status, group memberships without scripts
Create customizable dashboards for monitoring and reporting
Generate reports on Exchange Server activities and configurations
List shared folders and their permissions, get users and groups with access to specific folders, view folders with blocked inheritance
Gain visibility into group members, nested groups, users or computers not in groups, groups without members
Obtain a complete list of all AD actions performed by technicians to pass compliance audits
Generate pre-configured, script-free Microsoft 365 reports on users, licenses, groups, contacts, shared mailboxes, and OWA insights
Schedule reports to be generated and delivered automatically at specified intervals
Risk & Compliance(4)
Uncover hidden chains of permissions and relationships in AD and break them early to prevent attackers from abusing privileges
Identify and evaluate possible risk indicators within AD and Microsoft 365 environments with comprehensive security posture score
Scheduled access review campaigns reexamine privileges owned by users and groups in AD and Microsoft 365 to approve or revoke them
Proactively detect and visualize how attackers could potentially move laterally within AD environment to reduce attack surface
Security(1)
Streamline password management with CSV imports, random password generation, and automated password resets
Trial(1)
Fully functioning installation of ADManager Plus available for hands-on trial
Workflow(3)
Monitor and streamline AD operations performed across organization using approval-based workflows
Configure multiple workflows with different levels such as requesters, reviewers, approvers, and executors based on task nature
Configure SLA rules to ensure requested actions are performed on time without any delay
Pricing
Standard
- ✓Over 200 Active Directory reports
- ✓Active Directory user management
- ✓Active Directory computer management
- ✓Multiple-domain management
- ✓Help desk delegation
- ✓Microsoft 365 management and reporting
- ✓Exchange Server management and reporting
- ✓Integration with enterprise applications
Professional
- ✓Includes everything in Standard, plus:
- ✓File server management
- ✓Active Directory group management
- ✓Active Directory OU management
- ✓Active Directory contact management
- ✓GPO management
- ✓Report scheduling
- ✓OU-based administration
- ✓Workflow Automation with orchestration capabilities
- ✓Integration with enterprise applications
- ✓Active Directory migration
- ✓Load Balancing
Free
- ✓Over 200 Active Directory reports
- ✓Active Directory user management
- ✓Active Directory computer management
Backup and Recovery Add-on
- ✓Backup and restoration capabilities for AD
- ✓Azure AD backup and recovery
- ✓Google Workspace backup and recovery
Governance, Risk and Compliance Add-on
- ✓Identity risk assessment
- ✓Risk exposure management
- ✓Access certification
- ✓Centralized entitlements overview
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Integrations
5 known integrations