ADManager Plus in 2021: A year in review

For the ADManager Plus team, 2021 has been a busy year. Our team has pulled out all the stops to introduce exciting features and enhancements aimed at making the lives of IT administrators easier.
Here’s a quick roundup of the updates introduced to the product this year.

 What’s new in ADManager Plus?

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    Isilon, NetApp, and Cluster Shared Volume support

    Manage and report on access permissions for different storage platforms.

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    Integrations with ServiceDesk Plus Cloud and Jira

    Carry out routine IAM actions like user onboarding and offboarding; enabling, disabling, and unlocking user accounts; and resetting passwords in AD from these ITSM tools.

               
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    OU-based delegation

    Delegate roles (user provisioning, reseting passwords, unlocking users) granularly and securely to help desk technicians for only the desired OUs.

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    Enhanced Microsoft 365 management and reporting

    Create Microsoft 365 groups, mail-enabled groups, and dynamic distribution groups in bulk using group creation templates. Retrieve details like last user activity by service and date through readily available reports.

           
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    Advanced GPO management and reporting

    Manage the scope of GPOs with security filtering and Windows Management Instrumentation filtering options, and modify GPO permissions of objects. Configure security settings like Account Policies, Local Policies, Event Log, Restricted Groups, System Services, Registry, and File System for computer objects. Obtain key GPO information using these script-free reports: GPOs with Specific Settings, GPO Settings, GPOs with Script, and Compare GPO Versions.

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    Product security score

    Security is the core of what we do. Find out how secure your installation of a product is based on the score calculated on the configuration of security-related settings such as HTTPS, 2FA, and LDAP SSL.

             

Other highlights of ADManager Plus

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    UKG Pro, BambooHR, and Zoho People integration support

    Integrate AD and organizational HR data to increase security and provide seamless and unified governance of on-premises and cloud-based assets.

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    Microsoft Teams

    Add Microsoft 365 users to Microsoft Teams and channels during provisioning itself.

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    AD backup and recovery

    Create incremental and full backups of AD objects to ensure data remains intact in AD even in the wake of malicious insiders. Safeguard against accidental and undesired changes with granular. restart-free restoration of objects.