Save Time with Active Directory Management Tool: ADManager Plus

There are some very nice Microsoft tools available for Active Directory management, Active Directory User management, and Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). These MS tool are designed to manage organizational units, groups, users and all other AD objects.

The only limit in these tools is the limited reporting on AD objects. Some reports are partially produced by the GPMC. Some other information can be extracted and collected from your AD environment using manual scripts.

For this reason I use an interesting third-party tool called ManageEngine ADManager Plus. ADManager Plus is available in two editions, Freeware and Professional. The free edition allows you to manage users, view reports, and delegate security roles for a single domain. The professional edition can be used to manage all the domains for which it is licensed.

There are many advanced features for a comprehensive and easy customization and, as noted, it provides very comprehensive reports.

Active Directory Reports available on ManageEngine ADManager Plus:

• Active Directory User Reports
• Active Directory Logon Reports
• Active Directory Password Reports
• Active Directory Computer Reports
• Active Directory Group Reports

I use the ADManager Plus during Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audits to generate reports for internal and external auditors to give a full description about our corporate AD environment.

ManageEngine ADManager Plus