Active Directory Tools

Active Directory is a very important component of IT infrastructure based on Windows platform. Users perform various activities in AD catalog daily, so organizations need to allocate considerable resources to track all the changes in a timely manner. That is why Active Directory management and administration is an issue for IT specialists. We are starting a series of articles aiming to explain the basics of AD management and administration within large companies.

Even perfectly designed, planned, and implemented Active Directory infrastructure will not function properly without everyday monitoring and maintenance. In large companies Active Directory would be subject to thousands of changes every day (creation/deletion of user accounts, group membership, delegation rights, etc). To guarantee that all these changes in the network and IT workspace will not affect Active Directory functioning, it is necessary to daily monitor it with the help of Active Directory management tools.

Among a variety of AD tools there are some that offer a set of features that help to reduce the complexity of company management, IT workload, administrative costs, and improve security. In this article we will review Softerra Adaxes - an efficient and flexible Active Directory management solution that facilitates, automates and secures Active Directory management, maintenance and administration. Softerra Adaxes guarantees high-performance user lifecycle management achieved with:

Organization and effective distribution of permissions among Active Directory users;

Windows-based & web-based Active Directory management;

Quick and advanced search over the AD objects;

An extensive list of Active Directory reports that facilitate analysis and monitoring of the Active Directory environment;

Automation of routine administrative tasks (automatic change of the group membership of an object, modification of object properties, management of user home directories, movement of objects to new locations, deletion of objects, etc.);

Avoidance of repetitive information input and observation of multiple enterprise standards when creating and modifying Active Directory objects;

Definition of critical operations that are executed only after the execution is permitted by a responsible person;

Capture of Active Directory objects spread over the Active Directory to organize them in an alternative way to collectively manage, overcoming the restrictions of domain or organizational structures;

The possibility to track who performed what operations, when, on what objects, filter data to view all operations performed from a specific host within a specific period of time, etc.

As we can see, large companies need tools that allow to effective facilitate, automate and secure Active Directory management, maintenance and administration, hence reduce their work load.

Would you like to monitor Active Directory environment, update large-volume user information, automate routine tasks, search information in Active Directory, distribute permissions and perform a lot of other activities in AD with just one solution? Then Softerra Adaxes is just perfect for you.

Softerra Adaxes website: www.adaxes.com

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