Welcome To ManageEngine ADManager Plus

Managing the Active Directory is an open challenge that every IT administrator faces in his day-to-day activities. Manually configuring the users and security permissions is extremely time consuming, tiresome, and error prone, particularly in large, complex Windows networks.  Moreover, it is essential to have an in-depth knowledge about the Active Directory to accomplish these tasks.

ManageEngine ADManager Plus offers a 100% web-based solution to meet your Active Directory management requirements. It allows you to create or modify multiple users in the Active Directory by hiding the complexities of the native Active Directory features. With its role-based security model, you can efficiently manage the security permissions with ease.  The comprehensive reports provide you a quick insight in to the Active Directory objects.

The powerful search facility allows you to determine the permissions granted for a specific Active Directory object. The search can be made on a specific AD object, for a specific user and based on the permissions the user has. This lets you to perform an audit for the defined security permissions for a specific AD object or for a specific user.

The Active Directory Explorer lets you browse through the Active Directory for any of the domains. You can view the properties and security permissions of the various AD objects of that domain.

The following sections will help you to get familiar with the product:

• Technology Overview: Provides a brief introduction to Windows Active Directory.

• Getting Started: Provides you the details of system requirements, product installation and start up.

• Configuring Domains: Helps you in configuring your domains to manage using ADManager Plus.

• Personalizing the Client: Helps you to set your preferences like changing password, themes, etc.

• Active Directory User Management: Explains the various ways to create user accounts in the Active Directory using ADManager Plus.

• Active Directory Reports: Helps you to view the reports of the Active Directory infrastructure components.

• Active Directory Delegation: Explains the creation and delegation of security roles to grant/revoke permissions to the security principals.

• Help Desk Delegation: Allows delegation of administrative tasks to non-administrative users in a secure way with a defined scope.

• Searching Security Permissions: Enables searching ACEs to determine the permissions of the security principals.

• Active Directory Explorer: Enables you to view the Active Directory in the Windows Explorer format.

• Troubleshooting Tips: Helps you to troubleshoot the problems with the product.

• FAQ: Provides a set of frequently asked questions to clarify your product related queries.

• Known Issues and Limitations: Provides the limitations and the known issues of ADManager Plus.