How to Build Your Own ADManager Plus
Replace ADManager Plus with a custom build. Unified Active Directory and Microsoft 365 management and reporting solution
Build Difficulty: 5/5
Build a working replacement in a weekend with AI tools
Estimated Timeline
Based on 51 features at Weekend Project difficulty, expect about One weekend with AI-assisted development.
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Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 51 features
Management(12 features)
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
+7 more in this category
Reporting(10 features)
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
+5 more in this category
Automation(6 features)
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
+1 more in this category
Risk & Compliance(4 features)
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
Backup & Recovery(3 features)
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 features)
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
Workflow(3 features)
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
Delegation(2 features)
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
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