Product Review : ADManager Plus to Manage Active Directory for Windows Environment

I could have not able to perform my role as Microsoft Sharepoint Portal server administrator if don't get to know about ADManager Plus by Adventnet Inc. tool to manage Windows server Active Directory. ADManager Plus is a nice tool who provides web-based management and administration of Windows Active Directory (in short Active Directory is called as 'AD'). Active Directory is a directory service by Microsoft for use in Windows Server 2003 and up. Active Directory is a means to perform the administrative tasks for an organization. It helps organization to manage its users, groups, workstations, computers etc.

Generally it is little difficult to use Active Directory from the server and using Active Directory dialog box. The advanced features are all command based. ADManager is the application which makes this use of Active Directory easy and user friendly. ADManager has free and professional edition. With the free edition you will be allowed to manage up to 100 objects in a single domain and can not have more than one domain configured.

Who Should Use ADManager: Generally Active Directory is best tool manage the network environment of a small institution and thus obviously ADManager is for small organization. Sometimes we have to use Windows server with the people who might not have real in depth knowledge on Windows server. In this case ADManager is very helpful because it works as an interface between Windows server and AD.

Who Should Not Use ADManager: As Active Directory is not for large organization, ADManager also not for very large organization with thousands of users.

Features of ADManager: ADManager comes under manage engine software. The main advantage of ADManager is the ease of doing all administrative works of a windows server. Active Directory is not so user-friendly, but ADManager makes all tasks just a click away. You can download the free version of ADManager Plus from this place.

If you open ADManager you will find primarily six tabs - Home, AD Mgmt, AD Reports, AD Delegation, Admin and Support.