Active Directory user management tool

What is Active Directory user management?

In today's dynamic IT environments, Active Directory user management is more than just account creation and deletion. It encompasses a wide range of activities, including provisioning new accounts for employees during onboarding, resetting passwords when users forget their credentials, updating group memberships to reflect departmental changes, and disabling or removing accounts during offboarding to prevent unauthorized access.

Managing Active Directory users is a critical, day-to-day task for IT administrators, often consuming a significant portion of their time. Using ADUC or PowerShell for these tasks means an IT administrator would have to manually manage each user account and their properties or use complex scripts to manage them in bulk, causing significant challenges. While the task in itself can be tedious and repetitive, the sheer volume of repetitive tasks drastically increases the chances of human errors like incorrect permissions, wrong organizational units, or forgotten security cleanups, leading to critical security vulnerabilities or compliance issues. This is where ADManager Plus comes in.

ADManager Plus is an Active Directory management and reporting solution designed to simplify and automate these critical tasks and ultimately overcome the challenges associated with native Active Directory tools. It enables IT teams to manage Active Directory users in bulk with smart templates, automations, and much more, truly transforming Active Directory user management.

Managing Active Directory users using ADManager Plus

ADManager Plus simplifies every aspect of user life cycle management and enables IT admins to manage identities across Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace from a single place. It offers a comprehensive set of features that helps admins manage multiple users at the same time, automate routine tasks like account cleanups or password resets, and delegate tasks to help desk teams securely.

For bulk user management tasks, you can simply import a CSV file containing the necessary user details and perform the task. This eliminates the need for manual scripting and drastically cuts down the time required for mass user updates. Additionally, to ensure consistency and enforce organizational standards, ADManager Plus allows you to create customizable templates and use them during user creation or modification. These templates let you preconfigure attribute values such as department, location, OU, and logon hours, and they can be used to standardize user accounts.

Streamlined user provisioning

ADManager Plus allows administrators to create multiple user accounts simultaneously by simply importing a CSV file containing user details. This capability includes setting passwords, defining attributes, assigning to OUs, and adding to multiple groups, all in one go. It also offers prefilled user creation templates, which further streamline the process, ensuring consistency across all newly created accounts and significantly reducing setup time.

Effortless user updates

ADManager Plus offers predefined user management options that allow administrators to update attributes of multiple users by importing a CSV file.

Using ADManager Plus, you can:

Reset user passwords

Instantly reset passwords for multiple users in a single operation.

Modify group memberships

Easily add or remove users from multiple security and Active Directory groups simultaneously.

Unlock user accounts

Quickly unlock multiple locked-out user accounts at once.

Enable or disable users

Enable or disable user accounts in bulk, a crucial task for managing seasonal employees, contractors, or users on extended leave.

Move users

Seamlessly move multiple user accounts between OUs to reflect departmental changes, reorganizations, or promotions.

Modify user attributes

Modify user attributes such as contact information, job titles, manager details, or custom attributes in bulk.

Restore deleted users

Easily view and restore deleted user objects, preserving all their attributes and group memberships.

Modify permissions

Adjust NTFS and share permissions for multiple users at once.

Automation of routine tasks

Automate routine Active Directory tasks like identifying and disabling inactive users, deleting stale accounts, or even generating essential compliance reports automatically. This capability significantly reduces the manual workload on IT teams; minimizes the chance of human error; and ensures that Active Directory remains clean, secure, and compliant without constant manual oversight.

Task delegation

Admins can assign specific roles or permissions to junior technicians, ensuring they only perform designated Active Directory user management tasks while sensitive actions remain restricted. For example, a help desk technician could be allowed to reset passwords for users in a specific OU but not create or delete accounts.

Deprovisioning workflows

Admins can build workflows that combine multiple actions, such as deleting an Active Directory account, moving it to a quarantined OU, removing Microsoft 365 licenses, and sending notifications to the HR team, into a single automated process triggered by an event in ADManager Plus.

How to manage Active Directory users with ADManager Plus

Managing Active Directory users is simple with ADManager Plus’ intuitive workflow:

1. Pick your management action

   Choose the type of user management task you would like to perform.

2. Select users

   Import a CSV file containing users or search and locate users.

3. Manage users in a jiffy

   Apply your selected action to all imported users in one go. Preview changes before committing to ensure accuracy, then execute the task in seconds.

Benefits of using ADManager Plus for Active Directory user management