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Active Directory Management involves the complete and comprehensive management of Active Directory Infrastructure objects and Resources. Different organizations have different needs and hence deploy solutions which are in tune with their requirements. A comparison document provides any organization with better flexibility and ability to understand different products at the same time. This helps in selecting the right solutions suitable to them.
This document differentiates ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Quest ActiveRoles Server. A high level difference followed by a tabulated difference is the approach followed in this document.
This comparison document between ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Quest ActiveRoles Server gives an idea on the basic features which are common in both products and also the differences. Both products are aimed at helping an administrator to achieve effective Active Directory Management by effectively delegating Roles to Help Desk Technicians.
| Completely Web Based: | Both ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Quest ActiveRoles Server are web based and can be accessed from anywhere in the domain. |
| Life Cycle Management: | Active Directory Management involves effective management active directory objects. Active Directory objects include users, groups, computers and other objects. Both the software's play a vital role in effective User and Group life cycle management. |
| User Life Cycle Management: | User Life Cycle Management involves complete taking into account the life cycle of a user from creation to deletion. This also involves a vital role in modification of user properties during the life cycle. User Provisioning (Creation with designating privileges), De-Provisioning (Process of Removing a User or making a User Inactive State and finally deleting) and Re-Provisioning (Any activity performed on a user privileges between Provisioning and De-provisioning). |
| User Provisioning: | ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Quest ActiveRoles Server assist in User Provisioning (Creation) with all necessary privileges for the user. The privileges include permission to specify User Profile, Account Details, Contact Details, Exchange Server, Terminal Services and other Custom Attributes. |
Both Products assist in user provisioning ADManager Plus has an advantage where creating a user can be done in a single stretch. Quest though assists user provisioning it involves following several steps.
| Features | ManageEngine ADManager Plus Try now |
Quest ActiveRoles Server | |
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| User Provisioning | |||
| Exchange Mail Box Creation | |||
| Custom Attributes Support | |||
| LCS Support | |||
| OCS Support | NA | ||
| Single Step Process | |||
| Templates for User Creation | |||
| Bulk Creation of Users with CSV file import | |||
| User Re-Provisioning (Modifying User Properties) | Modifying a User Properties involves several changes that are to be effected on a user based on need. This includes modifying all the account attributes for the user. Both ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Quest ActiveRoles Server support User Re-Provisioning comprehensively. |
| User De-Provisioning |
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| Group LifeCycle Management | Group life cycle management involves Group Provisioning, De-Provisioning and Re-Provisioning. Both the Software's ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Quest ActiveRoles Server facilitate Provisioning, De-Provisioning and Re-Provisioning in bulk or single Groups. |
| HelpDesk Delegation |
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| Report Generation and Management capabilities | Reporting in ManageEngine ADManager Plus is comprehensive with facilities to export them to different formats, printing of reports. Reports can also be scheduled. Management actions can be performed from the reports. From these reports he can enable, disable, delete move or perform other management actions on the object. Though reports can be scheduled with Quest ActiveRoles Server it does not cover all Active Directory attributes as done by ADManager Plus. |
| Scheduling and Emailing of Reports(Information) | Information on Active Directory Infrastructure can be scheduled. This information can be emailed to selected list of users every day every month or at specified periods of time. The reports can be emailed to administrators, helpdesks, auditors or any user the administrator chooses. Both ADManager Plus and Quest ActiveRoles Server provide this functionality. |
| Scalability | ADManager Plus and Quest ActiveRoles Server are both scalable to suit any enterprise, and reports on AD objects are generated at ease and at least times. |
| Installations | ManageEngine ADManager Plus being web based requires only a single installation, helpdesks access the software from anywhere on the web and extract and view desired reports. |
| Licensing | ADManager Plus is licensed based on the Number of Domains and Helpdesk technicians deployed. Quest ActiveRoles Server is licensed based on the number of objects managed using the software. |
| Features | ManageEngine ADManager Plus Try now |
Quest Software Active Roles | |
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| Provisioning | |||
| User Provision | |||
| User Re-provision | |||
| User De-Provision | |||
| Group Management | |||
| Move Users, Groups, Home Folders | |||
| Contact Management | NA | ||
| Computer Management | |||
| Exchange Mailboxes Provisioning | |||
| Security and Distribution Groups Management | |||
| Centralized Reporting | |||
| Group Life Cycle Management | |||
| Self Service Update Personal Information | |||
| Role Based Delegation | |||
| Restricting Access to OU / Domain for Help Desk Restricting Functions | |||
| Facilitate Super Admin Privileges for Help Desk | |||
| Approval Process | |||
| Audit of Help Desk | |||
| Employee Search | |||
| Active Directory Reports | |||
| Management Actions from Reports | |||
| Reports | Comprehensive on all AD Attributes | Limited to Users and Groups. | |
| Support for Non-Windows Active Directory Environments | |||
ManageEngine ADManager Plus is a web-based Windows AD management and reporting solution that helps AD administrators and help desk technicians accomplish their day-to-day activities. With an intuitive,easy-to-use interface, ADManager Plus handles a variety of complex tasks and generates an exhaustive list of AD reports, some of which are essential requirements to satisfy compliance audits. It also helps administrators manage and report on their Exchange Server, Office 365, and Google Apps environments, in addition to AD, all from a single console.
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