Your task should be automated: organize Active Directory

In a busy environment, Active Directory may become like a junk-filled warehouse that has never been cleaned up. Obsolete user accounts, non-existent related servers, and other confusing categories are flooding the Active Directory and can cause performance and management issues. Manual cleaning is a very tedious task and time consuming, which may lead to more productive work. The good news is that there are a lot of tools that automate the process of keeping a lot of work to keep the Active Directory tidy.

One of the easiest and most straightforward tools of these tools is the Active Directory Janitor for special operating software (this software has a 30-day trial period; a set of software prices $199). It can quickly look at an Active Directory store to find out all the objects that are no longer considered to be in compliance with entities such as an active computer and a user account being used. Next, the administrator can get a report. All suspicious objects are listed in the report, and can be deleted, invisible, or rearranged by suspicious objects if required by the administrator.

When using Active Directory Janitor to scan a network and ensure accurate detection (for example, the user's last login time, which is a useful way to find a user account that is no longer in use), Active Directory Janitor Use more than 30 custom features, and you can ask it to automatically tag user accounts that are based on reliable conditions that are a security risk.

Netpro's Directory Analyst provides different processing, in addition to the same in-depth analysis of Active Directory management. The software checks Active Directory for small problems like copy delays or DNS conflicts, and suggests fixing each one with a tagged question. This tool also provides statistics for replication to determine the effects of a particular application (for example, Exchange) on Active Directory, and is specifically supported in conjunction with framework applications like Microsoft Operations Management.

If you want to use a simple way to record changes made in Active Directory, the company's ChangeAuditor software can record metadata about each associated Active Directory AD: Who made the change, What time and under what conditions did the change occur?

Quest Software has designed a software called Active Directory Management for the Active Directory Quest Management Suite for Active Directory. In this package, there is a program called Reporter that monitors all changes made to the Active Directory along with the audit and trace record functions —— for example, which person made changes to which record. It also shows whether these changes were done manually or by other management component products. There is also a program called ActiveRoles included in this component, which is a program that speeds up Active Directory configuration or creates new user account groups based on special requirements.

Pricing Information

Active Directory Janitor has a 30-day free usage period and the entire product is priced at $199.

The pricing for the DirectoryAnalyzer and ChangeAuditor software is based on the number of user accounts in the Active Directory, which is currently priced at $11 per user, which includes a one-year technical support fee. For those buyers with more than 100 user accounts, there will be some discounts. If the DirectoryAnalyser software is purchased at the same time as the ChangeAuditor software, the price of the package will be discounted.

Quest's Reporter software is priced at $8 per active user account. ActiveRoles Direct is priced at $20 per active user account. The Quest Management Suite for Active Directory with ActiveRoles Direct is priced at $36 per active user account. The software includes both Reporter and products managed for Group Policy, as well as Active Directory objects and Active Directory performance fixes.