Popular Features

Discover Active Administrator’s Impressive List of Features

Active Directory Auditing

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  Unifying Active Directory Changes

  Centralize AD changes into Active Administrator’s central database for improved searching, security, and faster problem resolution.

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  Consolidate AD Changes

  Active Auditing consolidates changes on AD objects, GPOs, permissions, and everything in-between.

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  Active Alerting Eliminates Overload

  Active Alerting filters out unneeded information to ensure administrators are pointed in the right direction.

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  Create Once, Use Everywhere.

  Created reports automatically become available for other administrators to use.

Active Directory Security

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  AD Security Made Easy

  Granularly delegate control of AD without the complexity of Windows’ native Delegation of Control.

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  Active Templates Simplify Delegation

  Use self-healing Active Templates to define, apply, and reinforce security and delegation settings.

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  Automatically Expire Temporary Access

  Configure Active Templates for automatic expiration and ensure temporary settings don’t become permanent.

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  Search AD Permissions Easily

  Quickly search Active Directory for hard to find delegated permissions. Eliminate over-privileged users to help meet compliance regulations.

Group Policy Management

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  Heads Up GPO Visibility

  Leverage the Objects and Objects by Container views to supply the GPO visibility you need.

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  Modify Policies Completely Offline

  Modify Group Policies in an offline and protected repository to ensure GPOs go live only when they’re ready for deployment.

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  Zero Effort Policy Comparisons

  Compare settings across Group Policies with Active Administrator’s color-coded comparison reports.

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  Version History with Rollback

  See the history of every Group Policy, with policy rollback only a click away.

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  Remote Client Policy Troubleshooting

  Remotely fix policy application issues with Active Administrator’s client-side troubleshooting.

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  Online and Offline RSoP

  Get GPO modeling across online and offline policies to predict deployed configurations.

Active Directory Account Management

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  Quickly Identify Inactive Accounts

  Quickly find and fix inactive user and computer accounts with automated reporting and remediation.

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  Get Alerted on Changes

  Receive alerts when user and computer accounts change.

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  Automatically Send Password Reminders

  Proactively notify users prior to forced password changes with a Change Your Password email reminder.

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  Set Fine-Grained Password Policies

  Configure complex Fine-Grained Password Policies with a safe and simple interface.

Active Directory Recovery

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  Quick Recovery for Everything

  Use Quick Recovery to restore objects, entire groupings of objects, or individual attributes from virtually any point in time with just a few clicks.

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  Goodbye Directory Services Restore

  Restore anything in AD without the challenges and downtime of Directory Services Restore Mode.

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  Resurrect User Object Passwords

  Options for restored users: Resurrect an old password, create a new one, or generate a random replacement.

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  Independent AD Security Restore

  Restore security information on AD objects without restoring the object itself.

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  Bring Back Group Policies

  Restore Group Policies and their settings from backups with just a few clicks.

Active Directory Health

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  Active Directory Health

  Get daily assurance of AD’s functionality—or confirmation something’s wrong—with automated AD Health Assessments.

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  Replication Monitoring and Analysis

  Easily troubleshoot AD replication problems with the intuitive Replication Analyzer.