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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Overview

What is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

ADAudit Plus is a UBA-driven auditor that helps keep your AD, Azure AD, file systems (including Windows, NetApp, EMC, Synology, Hitachi, and Huawei), Windows servers, and workstations secure and compliant. ADAudit Plus transforms raw and noisy event log data into real-time reports and alerts, enabling you to get full visibility into activities happening across your Windows Server ecosystem in just a few clicks. More than 10,000 organizations across the world trust ADAudit Plus to: 1. Instantly notify them about changes in their Windows Server environments. 2. Continuously track Windows user logon activity. 3. Monitor the active and idle time spent by employees at their workstations. 4. Detect and troubleshoot AD account lockouts. 5. Provide a consolidated audit trail of privileged user activities across their domains. 6. Track changes and sign-ins in Azure AD. 7. Audit file accesses across Windows, NetApp, EMC, Synology, Hitachi, and Huawei file systems. 8. Monitor file integrity across local files residing on Windows systems. 9. Mitigate insider threats by leveraging UBA and response automation. 10. Generate audit-ready compliance reports for SOX, the GDPR, and other IT mandates.

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Details
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Product Description

Real-time Windows Active Directory and File-Server change audit solution


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Year Founded
2002
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Del Valle, Texas
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ManageEngine offers enterprise IT management software for your service management, operations management, Active Directory and security needs. Download free trial now.


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Recent ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Reviews

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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"AdAudit Plus - Great reporting and auditing tool"
Perfect compatibility with active directory and microsoft servers and user-friendly management interface.
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Ahmed M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"ADAudit Plus is the Ultimate Active Directory Audit Solution"
ManageEngine's ADAudit Plus is a standout Active Directory audit and reporting software. Its user-friendly interface, comprehensive auditing, real-...
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O'sniel S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Interesting"
It provides an insightful experience on everyday use
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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Media

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Demo - Windows user logon tracking
Windows user logon tracking
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Demo - Account Lockout analyzer
Account Lockout analyzer
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Demo - File change auditing
File change auditing
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Demo - Privileged user monitoring
Privileged user monitoring
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Demo - Instant change notifications
Instant change notifications
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Demo - Audit ready compliance reports
Audit ready compliance reports
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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

ManageEngine's ADAudit Plus is a standout Active Directory audit and reporting software. Its user-friendly interface, comprehensive auditing, real-time monitoring, customizable alerts, and detailed reports make it a top choice for IT professionals. It also offers user behavior analytics, integration options, and affordability. If you want a powerful, easy-to-use tool for Active Directory security and compliance, ADAudit Plus is the answer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Sometimes Upgrading ManageEngine ADAudit Plus can be challenging as update issues are not always well-documented in the logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Account lockout issues

find accounts with expired passwords

know all accounts connect from more than one server

check any administration changes on GPO

check who create, modify or delete any account in AD Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

It provides an insightful experience on everyday use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

I would not see one at this stage as I'm fairly new to it. Nothing but good things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simple analysis of everyday tasks are being highlighted and made available in a dataset. In contrast it was problematic but now easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

It helps organisations to proactively detect and respond to security threats while also simplifying the auditing and reporting process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

It must also designed to help individuals monitor and audit their Active Directory environments and not only organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps detect and respond to security threats. It is benefical in the sense that it is looking to enhance the security and compliance of Active Directory environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Perfect compatibility with active directory and microsoft servers and user-friendly management interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

It's great for active directory reporting and auditing, but I would love to have the same features in Admanager in the same app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is perfect to monitor all activities on our servers such as active directory and windows file server. And creating alarms based on the activity makes it very easy to track critical operations. For example, instantly monitoring authorizations managed with admin groups or security groups and defining alarms can save lives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

It has been a fantastic tool for tracking and monitoring changes in Active Directory. We have been able to use the tool to find stale account and excess failed logins throughout the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

The user interface could be better in a few places. Also, as part of the licensing, you are required to license all domain controllers, so expansion in your environment can cause blind spots. Neither is a huge issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is solving tracking changes made in Active Directory and adding a layer of accountability to changes being made. Plus if a big change is made it is a great place to reference when and how the change was made if you need to revert Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Ability to run easy reports for compliance and audits. Also I am able to determine where some system issues may be happening such as user lockouts and old service accounts. I've used it to figure out what accounts haven't been used for months and remove them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

The update process leaves a little to be desired. The initial install is an MSI, but you need to update via a PPM file. The update also calls for several batch files that wreak havoc with some Anti Malware software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

old unused service and user accounts. Generating reports for audit. Auditors appreciate the granularity and native PDF. Additionally it is much faster to generate complex reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Default reports are all you need to your audit reports against your Active Directory environment. Creating custom reports is simple. Perfect for large-scale Active Directory environments. Automating and scheduling reports are also easy to do. Their support, both local and international, has been outstanding over the last few occasions. Fast escalations within their support framework and online sessions to aid in resolving your issues. One of the best auditing tools currently out there in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

To date, there were a few upgrade issues. However, the support team was able to resolve the problems. Querying more than one Active Directory domain and the number of domain controllers requires affects the licensing fees. That is something to be aware of when purchasing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating and scheduling reports has relieved the burden on administrators. Delegating the permissions to perform specific tasks to certain teams has also been a considerable time safer. Administrators are no longer required to produce repetitive reports for the various departments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Helps keep the organization secure by monitoring and getting alerts for whatever types of AD account activity you need to watch, such as bad password attempts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Can be hard to sort through the data. The filters/search tools are not always easy to use, and if you make the mistake of hitting the back button or something, there goes your filter. Also some data views are redundant which makes it confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed to keep an eye on account activity, but we have also benefited from monitoring other changes to AD such as group policy changes for example, or changes to OU structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Aside from being easy to use, I like that it has a powerful system for auditing events related to Active Directory, such as being able to set alerts when specific changes occur in AD, such as a user being given Domain Admin rights. This could be an indicator of something malicious going on, or serves as a useful tool for being notified when changes are being made on the network. It has helped us troubleshoot login issues as well where users were being locked out of their accounts for unknown reasons. The file auditing is helpful as well and it's allowed us to determine who deleted or moved files be it accidental or otherwise. It can even audit your GPO for any changes. If your company faces audits, the reporting makes it easy to export the necessary reports without having to do too much work yourself. The support from ADManage is also good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Although the website is easy to use once you are familiar with it, becoming familiar with it will take some time. There's a lot of options to choose from and it can be overwhelming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ManageEngine ADAudit Plus:

Make sure before you buy it that you're going to utilize most of what it has to offer. It's a powerful piece of software that may be overkill for your environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

We initially purchased ManageEngine for a few reasons: One was to help us solve account lockout issues which it did; the other was to be able to generate reports easily to be compliant with audits such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS and such; and lastly we wanted to consolidate some of our software. Previously, we had an entirely separate file auditing program and with ADAudit we were able to get rid of that program entirely and use the built-in one with AD Audit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Very easy to setup and upgrade. The application pulls logs directly from DC's and has a lot of the functionality required out of the box.

The website is easy to navigate and very clean. The out of box reports are really nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

Support really needs to be better, but for the price it is a trade off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed ability to report and alert real time on AD events. Ability to alert on groups that get modified, GPO modifications, any changes to privileged accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.