Active Administrator
Active Administrator is a comprehensive management and auditing solution enabling administrators to efficiently manage Active Directory security and Group Policies in Windows 2000 and 2003 based networks.
- Active Administrator 0.80MB
While extremely powerful and flexible, Active Directory quickly becomes very complex to manage in Windows networks of any size.Administrators leave, users are given elevated privileges, applications require special accounts - very soon you have an Active Directory full of security weaknesses with no way to find or audit them. Add to that the difficulty of recovering from accidental deletions of users, groups or OUs, and the risk of editing Group Policies in a live environment... Managing Active Directory using the built-in tools for even simple tasks quickly becomes overwhelming.
Active Administrator is an enterprise solution focused on streamlining Active Directory security and Group Policy Management. With an easy to use interface, Active Administrator provides a single and central point of control for your entire Active Directory environment. Active Administrator reduces your Active Directory cost of ownership with time-saving point-and-click control of essential Active Directory security and Group Policy settings.
ENSURE Active Directory SECURITY
Active Administrator gives administrators a window directly into the security of Active Directory objects. The built-in tools require navigating to the Security tab of an object's properties and often several more clicks to view security information in piecemeal fashion. Active Administrator simply navigates up and down the whole Active Directory environment in one pane,showing permissions of selected objects in another. You can easily filter default as well as inherited permissions, viewing only those that have been added or delegated.You can also easily search Active Directory for where a user or group has permissions.Active Administrator provides the power and ease of use for navigating,understanding and viewing Active Directory permissions.
DELEGATE Active Directory CONTROL
One of the most difficult tasks in managing Active Directory security is assigning permissions consistently. The built-in Delegation of Control wizard has no mechanism to determine if permissions have changed since initial assignment and no mechanism to easily repair them if required. To assign permissions, Active Administrator uses "Active Templates" - defined sets of permissions required for a particular user role. Templates are defined with appropriate permissions, and then applied to users and other objects when needed, ensuring that permissions are consistently assigned. Active Administrator then monitors those Active Template permissions for any modifications or deletions, and can auto-repair the permissions and notify an administrator of the incident.
MANAGE GROUP POLICIES
Windows' Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) feature provides administrators the ability to examine the combined security and configuration settings the user will experience in their Windows environment.Active Administrator enhances this with the ability to run what-if scenarios,such as moving the user or computer to another OU or Active Directory site,or adding the user or computer to a group. Active Administrator also removes the risk that modifying a live Group Policy will have real-time negative effects on production users. With Active Administrator, Group Policies can be copied and modified offline, and analyzed with RSoP while completely safe from your production Active Directory. Finally, if you are migrating your Active Directory to a new forest or domain, Active Administrator will also replicate the policies across domain and forest boundaries, keeping all security intact.
