Active Directory

ADManager Plus

Active Directory Management - Active Directory Management and Reporting

Overview

ADManager Plus is a web-based Active Directory (AD) management and reporting solution designed to simplify IT administration. It enables organisations to efficiently manage user accounts, groups, and permissions across AD, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Google Workspace, and other IT environments. With automation, workflow-based delegation, and compliance-ready reporting, ADManager Plus reduces administrative overhead, enhances security, and ensures regulatory compliance. Its intuitive interface allows IT teams to streamline routine tasks such as user provisioning, password resets, and access control, while seamless integrations improve operational efficiency across various IT systems.

Key Features

• Active Directory user management
• Microsoft 365 and Exchange Server management and reporting
• Built-in report library and custom reports builder
• Rule-based account creation and modification templates
• Multi-approval workflow
• Delegation based on OU or group
• Automated stale account cleanup
• Time-bound access management

Which IT Challenges Does ADManager Plus Solve?

• Time-consuming user management – Automates user provisioning, modification, and de-provisioning.
• Bulk account creation challenges – Enables bulk AD, Microsoft 365, and Exchange account management.
• Complex delegation of IT tasks – Provides secure role-based access control for helpdesk teams.
• Lack of AD reporting – Offers detailed reports on users, groups, logins, and inactive accounts.
• Password-related helpdesk tickets – Simplifies password resets and account unlocks.
• Security risks from stale accounts – Identifies and removes inactive or unused AD accounts.
• Manual errors in group and OU management – Automates group membership and organisational unit (OU) changes.
• Compliance challenges – Generates audit-ready reports for GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX.
• Limited visibility into AD changes – Tracks and reports on user, group, and permission changes.
• Inefficient Microsoft 365 and Exchange Management – Streamlines mailbox, licence, and group management.

Which Edition of ADManager Plus?

ManageEngine ADManager Plus is an identity and access management (IAM) solution designed to streamline Active Directory (AD), Microsoft 365, Exchange, and Google Workspace management. It offers different editions to suit various organisational needs:

• Free Edition – Basic AD user and group management for small organisations or evaluation.
• Standard Edition – Bulk user provisioning, AD reporting, and password management.
• Professional Edition – Includes automation, workflow-based delegation, and advanced role-based access control.

Backup and Recovery Add-on – Offers backup and restoration capabilities for AD, Azure AD and Google Workspace.
Governance, Risk and Compliance Add-on – Includes identity risk assessment and access certification features.

Related Products

• AD360
• ADAudit Plus
• ADSelfService Plus
• M365 Manager Plus
• Exchange Reporter Plus
• SharePoint Manager Plus

ADAudit Plus

Active Directory Auditing

Overview

ADAudit Plus is a real-time Active Directory auditing and monitoring solution that helps organisations enhance security, ensure compliance, and gain visibility into critical changes within their IT environment. It tracks user logins, file access, permission modifications, and administrative actions, providing detailed reports and alerts to detect unauthorised activities and potential threats. With behaviour analytics and anomaly detection, ADAudit Plus helps identify insider threats and suspicious logon patterns. It also simplifies regulatory compliance with prebuilt audit reports for GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, and other standards. By offering complete auditing of AD, Windows Servers, workstations, and file servers, ADAudit Plus strengthens security and improves IT governance.

Key Features

• Real-time change monitoring and alerting
• Active Directory group management
• User logon monitoring
• Audit trail for privileged users
• File access and user activity auditing
• Anomaly detection using UBA
• Compliance reports for SOX, the GDPR, and other mandates

Which IT Challenges Does ADAudit Plus Solve?

• Lack of visibility into Active Directory changes – Provides real-time auditing of user, group, and policy modifications.
• Security risks from insider threats – Detects suspicious logins, privilege escalations, and unauthorised access.
• Compliance challenges – Generates audit-ready reports for GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, and other regulations.
• Difficulty tracking login activity – Monitors successful, failed, and anomalous logins to prevent security breaches.
• Unauthorised file and folder access – Audits changes to critical files, folders, and shared resources.
• Inadequate privileged user monitoring – Tracks actions of administrators and privileged accounts.
• Account lockout issues – Identifies the root cause of frequent account lockouts.
• Difficulty auditing group policy changes – Monitors modifications to Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to prevent misconfigurations.
• Challenges in monitoring workstation activities – Tracks user logins, logoffs, and session durations for productivity analysis.
• Lack of alerts for critical security events – Provides real-time notifications for high-risk activities like bulk deletions, privilege escalations, and unauthorised access attempts.

By addressing these issues, ADAudit Plus helps organisations strengthen security, ensure compliance, and enhance operational visibility.

Which Edition Of ADAudit Plus Do I Need?

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is a real-time Active Directory auditing and security monitoring solution that helps organisations track user activities, detect security threats, and ensure compliance. It provides different editions to meet various IT and compliance needs:

• Free Edition – Offers limited auditing features for small environments or evaluation purposes.
• Standard Edition – Provides real-time auditing of user logins, account changes, group policy modifications, file access, and permission changes to enhance visibility and security.
• Professional Edition – Includes all Standard features plus advanced security alerts, compliance reporting (GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS), behavioural analytics, and custom audit reports for in-depth monitoring and threat detection.

The Professional Edition is ideal for organisations requiring advanced security monitoring, compliance tracking, and real-time threat detection, while the Standard Edition suits businesses looking for basic AD auditing and reporting.

Related Products

• AD360
• M365 Manager Plus
• Exchange Reporter Plus
• Log360
• EventLog Analyzer
• Firewall Analyzer
• Cloud Security Plus

ADSelfService Plus

Active Directory Password Management

A Self-Service tool to help domain users perform password resets, accounts unlock and employee self-update while also providing users with secure, one-click access to all SAML-supported enterprise applications.

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• Self-service Password Reset and Account Unlock
• Password Expiration Notifier
• Single Sign-on for Cloud Applications
• Password Synchroniser for On-prem and Cloud Apps
• Windows/macOS/Linux Login Agent
• Endpoint MFA for Windows/macOS logons
• Custom Password Policy Enforcer
• Directory Self-update and Corporate Search

RecoveryManager Plus

Active Directory Backup and Recovery Tool

Back up your AD, Office 365, Google Workspace and Exchange environments from a single console and restore any object, site, or mailbox whenever you need.

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Looking to secure and protect your M365? Check out M365 Security Plus

• Backup Active Directory objects in your domain
• Restore entire objects, or specific attributes of individual objects depending on the situation
• Backup mailboxes and sites in your Office 365 environment.
• Back up and restore all mailbox items (emails, calendar entries, contacts, journals, notes, posts, and tasks) in your on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online environments.
• Backup Google Workspaces, Google Drives, or even your personal account

DataSecurity Plus

File Server Auditing & Data Discovery

DataSecurity Plus helps fight insider threats, prevent data loss, and meet compliance requirements.

Looking for SIEM security? Check out Log360!

Looking to easily Manage your AD? Check out ADManager Plus

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• Real-time Windows file server access auditing and storage analysis tool that helps meet data security, information management, and compliance needs (SOX, HIPAA, FISMA, PCI, GLBA, GDPR).
• Track and analyse access to files and folders by drilling down into anomalies, recording access patterns, and examining share and NTFS permissions.
• Optimise storage space by isolating old, stale, and non-business files, getting insights into disk space usage, and viewing file and folder properties.
• Actively respond to security breaches with instant email alerts. Detect and counter ransomware with mass access alerts and response automation.

AD360

Integrated Identity and Access Management

 An IAM solution provided in a single integrated console to help make AD environments secure, compliant and easy to manage

AD360 Award-Winning IAM Solution! Find out more here!

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• Enables user provisioning, password self-service, Windows security and file server auditing, and Exchange reporting.
• Functionality for Windows Active Directory, Exchange servers and Office 365
• Simple, easy-to-use interface

FileAnalysis

File security and storage analysis solution

FileAnalysis—storage and security insights in one package

Backup and Recover your files from a single console with Recovery Manager Plus!

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• Reclaim storage capacity by locating and purging redundant, obsolete and trivial (ROT) data from your IT ecosystem
• Track your disk usage pattern and consumption rate to generate instant alerts when free space falls below a preconfigured limit
• Analyse and report on users’ effective access permissions across all files and folders to prevent
• Identify and manage data most vulnerable to security threats, and improve your organisation

M365 Manager Plus

Microsoft 365 Management, Auditing, Reporting, and Monitoring

Manage Exchange Online, Azure Active Directory, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services all from one place.

*** 100% Free for 25 Users ***

Looking to Manage your AD? Check out ADManager Plus

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• Granular reporting
• Real-time service health monitoring
• Advanced auditing
• Automation management
• Template-based management
• Content search
• Password expiration notifications
• Help desk delegation

SharePoint Manager Plus

SharePoint Management and Auditing

Sharepoint Manager Plus helps you to manage, audit, and report both the on-premises and Office 365 SharePoint environments.

Interested in the AD suite? Check out AD360!

Looking for M365 Management? Check out M365 Manager Plus

• Manage and audit SharePoint on-premise servers and Office 365 configurations.
• Includes out-of-the-box reports for monitoring SharePoint components such as farms, content databases, web applications, site collections, sites, lists and document libraries.
• Performs component-level and security-level auditing. Tracks permission changes, group changes and new role changes instantly with alerts.
• Helps meet compliance requirements by archiving audit log data for a flexible time period.

Exchange Reporter Plus

Exchange Server Change Audit and Reporting

A web-based tool for managing Exchange Server, Exchange Online, and Skype for Business from a single platform

Looking for an M365 solution? Check out M365 Manager Plus!

Looking to Manage Sharepoint?  Check out Sharepoint Manager Plus!

• Change auditing and reporting solutions for MS Exchange environments.
• Tracks and monitors enterprise ActiveSync infrastructure and the inventory of related smart devices.
• Reports on Outlook Web Access usage, mailbox traffic, and mailbox growth.
• Provides audit feature to enable investigation of unauthorised mailbox logins and other critical changes.

M365 Security Plus

Microsoft 365 Security and Protection

A Complete Microsoft 365 Security Solution

Looking for self-service? Check out ADSelfService Plus

Looking for a tool to report on your AD? Check out ADAudit Plus

Solutions Offered

• Office 365 Auditing
• Office 365 Content Search
• Office 365 Monitoring
• Office 365 Alerting
• Help Desk Delegation

Services Supported

• Exchange Online
• Microsoft Teams
• Azure Active Directory
• SharePoint for Business
• OneDrive for Business
• Microsoft Stream
• Skype for Business
• Yammer, Sway, and more.

Access Manager Plus

Secure remote access and privileged session management

Web-based privileged session management software for regulating access to remote systems through secure channels from a unified console.

With comprehensive auditing capabilities, it offers total visibility into all privileged access use and lets enterprises manage privileged user sessions in real time, shutting the door on privilege misuse.

• Central control
• Solid authentication system
• Effective user management
• Access control workflow
• Help desk integration
• Data centre remote access
• One-click remote sessions
• RemoteApp support
• Bi-directional remote file transfer
• Privileged session recording
• Live monitoring and collaboration
• In-depth audit trails