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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is a change audit software that provides detailed reports for changes made in Windows Active Directory and real-time compliance audits.

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Security Engineer

The simplicity of this product is fantastic. Its on of the easiest and most simple piece of software to use with the most effective results.

Assistant Manager - IT Network and Operations

Overall ManageEngine Audit Plus gives you a great AD Admin and Audit experience. I would love to recommend it.

Systems Engineer

It fails more often than not and the upgrade instructions listed on ManageEngine's website has inaccurate data (lists the wrong batch files to use, etc).

Great experience, I will definitely recommend this product.

Director of IT Infrastructure

Some of the upgrades are a bit of a pain due to services, and it's hard to install multiple products on the same server due to port usage and service installations.

IT Manager

Affordable and easy to use. It gathers a ton of useful information for internal audit support for SOX.

Head Of Operations

The ADAudit support team were really good with helping my team get the product set up in the first place, making sure that everything that needed to be seen could be seen.

SE Team Leader

If you have a large scale active directory environment you can not see what is going in it. You must use a auditor software and AD audit plus is perfect match for that need.

The upgrade process is the worst thing I've ever seen in a software product.

You can see what user doing very easily and you can export reports about that. Also if you add your fileserver, it will be act a perfect file server auditor.

System Administrator

Easy to add nodes as well as report generating. Good GUI which make it much easier to access console and mange it.

systems engineer

File server auditing is the best so far, very easy to use.

Database administrator

The only limitation of this tool is the cost only, it is abit expensive.

Group Infrastructure Specialist

Very useful product which integrates well with our systems and allows our L1 techs to keep a handle on user login issues on a daily basis without requiring any extra permissions in AD.

Network Administrator

Configuration is easy, there are many canned reports to pull daily, monthly, and quarterly reports on changed and access to AD and other integrations.

Does the job, decent technical support if needed.

Understand this is a tool worth recommending

Soo super fantastic tool for you

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus it is a very easy product to use and will make your life easier the more you utlie it, I had to run reports of users who had Bad logins/risky logins and it made it a breeze for me to review them

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It was something that I inherited when I started with my current company. It's decent, but I'm probably going to move to something that's a little more robust and easier to upgrade.

Could be better...

Soo accurate to have it.

I use it most for users that have their account locked frequently, i saw their log and use account in other computers that lock it.

Monitor domain controllers and user logs

The product is easy to work with and their support team are very helpful.  The menus are self explanatory and easy to navigate.

Very useful for auditing permissions and changes in AD

ADAudit Plus is a good option for those who did not migrate to Microsoft Entra ID. For those who made the jump, it is worth checking what Microsoft offers as part of its security offerings in Azure. 

A good Auditing tool for on-prem AD setups 

New to AD plus like what I see so far

Positive was able to get information I needed for internal audits easily.

A great help for getting information when being audited

Best Product to Audit your Active Directory

It does what it says on the tin, we're able to manage service tickets effectively

Manage Engine is good

Mi experiencia general con ADAudit Plus ha sido sumamente positiva. Esta solución ha demostrado ser confiable y eficiente para monitorear y auditar las actividades de nuestra red. Las funciones impactantes y la facilidad de uso del producto nos han sorprendido gratamente. Además, la integración con nuestro sistema existente ha sido muy sencilla. Estamos muy satisfechos con ADAudit Plus y lo recomendaría a cualquier organización que busque una solución completa y confiable para el monitoreo de auditorías.

"ADAP: La elección perfecta para la auditoría y monitoreo de actividades en la auditoria y monitoreo

"ADAP: The perfect choice for audit and monitoring activities in audit and monitoring

Some initial configuration is required, pretty to follow and understand its functionality 

AD Forensic system

ADAudit Plus reduced the time our service desk and IT teams took to troubleshoot and diagnose AD issues.The accountability and compliance in the organization also increased as we are now monitoring changes to Active Directory and its core components.

ADAudit Plus is essential for any IT department

For AD auditing very useful

We use this product to assist internal audit team with their requirements regarding any specific user auditing.

One of the best Active Directory Auditing Tools 

Very useful product which integrates well with our systems and allows our L1 techs to keep a handle on user login issues on a daily basis without requiring any extra permissions in AD. 

Reports can be emailed on a schedule which we use for auditing 3rd part access to our systems for example.

ADAuditPlus - block errors in user permissions

ADAudit audit's EVERYTHING. 

Very positive, I'd like if the software could pull more info on user lockouts. For instance if a use locks out on exchange it will say they locked out on a DC with no further info you have to check security logs on exchange. Other than that great product!

Easy to use and effective

An effective solution for auditing AD and file server activities

The ADAudit support team were really good with helping my team get the product set up in the first place, making sure that everything that needed to be seen could be seen.

From a user perspective I am very happy and believe I will be able to make lots of improvements based on audit results, and the HR team are happy that they can audit what they need to see too.

Incredibly powerful audit software

We use this for tracking bad password attempts and keeping logs of group changes.

Gone are the days of endless lockouts.

It has a particularly user-friendly interface and simple to use. It includes reports of users of groups and other objects of Active Directory in detail. An Active Directory-specific SIEM tool. With this product, you can store your data for years with the archiving mechanism.

You can get all kinds of reports with this product in the active directory environment.

We had many cases with different departments who remove files or folder, who made changes in excel file. The software always gives the right answer, never disappointed me. If you are looking for a file server audit, you should just buy it. 

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