Active Directory Management Tool

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Simplify provisioning, navigate threats, and demonstrate compliance.

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Manage your Active Directory service comprehensively with a single tool

Quickly Access User Data

Automate AD Provisioning

Protect Against Data Loss

Run Compliance Reports

Gain Additional Visibility

Use AD Management Software to Analyze User Access to Data and Improve Regulatory Compliance Quickly

Analyze accesses in your company with a user account management system

Compliance requirements driven by GDPR, PCI, and HIPAA require detailed user access monitoring, particularly for those with access to sensitive data.

SolarWinds^® Access Rights Manager (ARM) can deliver customized Active Directory reports, showing who has access to what and when they accessed this data. You can set up automated report scheduling and delivery directly to your auditor to help speed up audits and assessments. You can drill down on user access using the comprehensive Active Directory management tool in SolarWinds ARM.

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Harness the power of Active Directory management software to automate AD provisioning processes

Automating IT operations poses numerous benefits for enterprises, from saving money to reducing risk. Access Rights Manager (ARM)'s Active Directory and Azure AD management software allow instant user provisioning and de-provisioning. Role-specific templates can help assure conformity to security policies by delegating access privileges and enforcing the principle of least privilege. Also, ARM reduces IT workloads by securely delegating AD permission management to data owners.

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Protect Against Data Loss and Cybersecurity Breaches by Monitoring Active Directory Users

Credential theft and misuse are the most common tactics cyberattackers use. As an AD management tool, SolarWinds^® Access Rights Manager (ARM) can identify and isolate user accounts with insecure configurations, helping protect your enterprise against credential theft and unauthorized user access. Need to give threat records to your auditor? ARM can provide a complete audit trail of all permissions and access level changes so you can more easily build timelines to support cybersecurity investigations.

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Streamline and Optimize Management Tasks by Automating Regulatory AD Compliance Reports

The faster you answer an auditor’s questions, the easier the audit can be. With Access Rights Manager (ARM), you can quickly deliver comprehensive access reports directly to your auditor. ARM’s Active Directory management software can log the identities of anyone who has made changes to AD, file servers, SharePoint permissions, and Microsoft Exchange. With audit-ready reports built to help show who has access to what and when they accessed it, ARM helps your auditor get the answers they need faster than before.

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Improve Visibility With Hybrid Cloud Observability

SolarWinds^® Hybrid Cloud Observability provides additional visibility into your cloud and on-premises user activity. Thanks to its security observability integration, Hybrid Cloud Observation is compatible with Security Event Manager (SEM), Access Rights Manager, and Patch Manager.

This means you can increase your organization’s visibility with reduced tool sprawl and less alert fatigue. Thanks to the additional insights provided by Hybrid Cloud Observability, you can more easily ensure availability and reduce remediation time.

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Get More on Active Directory Management Tools

Do you find yourself asking…

What is Active Directory management?
Why is Active Directory management critical?
What are Active Directory management tools?
How do Active Directory management tools work?
How does Active Directory management work in Access Rights Manager?
How do you create a group and add users and change passwords and deactivate user accounts in bulk in SolarWinds ARM?
Related features and tools

Active Directory management comprises all systems, tools, and processes to manage the access rights for user groups and accounts related to company assets (systems, files, and data). Everyday AD management tasks include:

Creating and managing user accounts
Managing group memberships
Setting up and enforcing security policies
Ensuring users have access to the appropriate systems, applications, files, and data within the network

Effective Active Directory user management ensures users can securely access the resources they need while protecting sensitive information and maintaining compliance with organizational policies. It involves closely monitoring and regularly reporting user activities and maintaining the health and performance of AD servers.

Automation is critical for organizations looking to streamline operations and reduce administrative overhead. For example, automating routine, tedious tasks, such as user provisioning and de-provisioning with Active Directory user management tools, spares admins the hassle of doing everything manually, saving them time and energy so they can concentrate on more critical tasks.

Active Directory management comprises all systems, tools, and processes to manage the access rights for user groups and accounts related to company assets (systems, files, and data). Everyday AD management tasks include:
Creating and managing user accounts
Managing group memberships
Setting up and enforcing security policies
Ensuring users have access to the appropriate systems, applications, files, and data within the network
Effective Active Directory user management ensures users can securely access the resources they need while protecting sensitive information and maintaining compliance with organizational policies. It involves closely monitoring and regularly reporting user activities and maintaining the health and performance of AD servers.
Automation is critical for organizations looking to streamline operations and reduce administrative overhead. For example, automating routine, tedious tasks, such as user provisioning and de-provisioning with Active Directory user management tools, spares admins the hassle of doing everything manually, saving them time and energy so they can concentrate on more critical tasks.
Tools for Active Directory management are third-party software, which integrates with and optimizes AD. These tools can simplify activity reporting so you know who can access systems, data, and files.
A comprehensive, agile, and scalable AD manager solution reduces manual de-provisioning, as it offers:
Increased administrative control: Admins can manage user permissions and control them from a single interface and gain critical insight into their network’s operations.
Simplified regulatory compliance: The best Active Directory management tools can automatically generate management and compliance reports, so you’ll always be ready for an audit.
Easier credential management: Active Directory management makes setting and changing passwords easy, which is handy when changing all user passwords.
Improved internal and external security: Active Directory management reigns in external credential theft and internal unauthorized user access.
Reduced overhead costs: With one functional AD management tool, you won’t have to spend much money on disparate technologies to build an effective Active Directory manager. You can also scale up or down as you go.
SolarWinds^® Access Rights Manager (ARM) is a powerful and scalable Active Directory management tool, streamlining user management, simplifying user provisioning and de-provisioning, improving regulatory compliance, and managing user rights. Many Active Directory management tools can be costly and complicated, but ARM is an affordable solution offering everything you need to master Active Directory.
With ARM, you can:
Quickly demonstrate compliance for auditors with auto-generated reports
Automatically provision and de-provision users
Gain critical visibility into user access rights across your entire environment
Mitigate cybersecurity risks by cracking down on unauthorized user access and potential data breaches
Free up time to spend on more complex management tasks and more
ARM comes in two varieties: the audit edition and the full version. With the audit edition, you can effectively analyze, monitor, and audit AD, SharePoint, Exchange, and File Share. However, you’ll miss unique features, such as ARM’s self-service permissions portal and access rights delegation. Try the full version of Access Rights Manager for 30 days and unlock Active Directory's true potential for free.
SolarWinds ARM was created with the user in mind. Hence, creating groups, adding new users, changing passwords in bulk, and deactivating user accounts is simple.
How to create a group and add users
Open ARM, click “Start,” and select “Create new user or group.”
ARM will offer you four standard templates, but you can add as many customized templates as you want. Pick a group template and click “Select.”
Set the group’s name, description, scope, and type.
Add users to the group on the same screen.
Set credentials for adding the new group in AD.
Enter a “comment” to explain why the account was created and what it’s being used for.
Save your work.
How to change passwords in bulk
Open ARM, click “Analysis” on the right side of the screen, and select “AD users” under “Categories.”
Select "All AD user accounts."
Set scenario options and click “Start calculations for your scenario.”
Narrow your selection using the sorting, filtering, grouping, and column features. Select the entries you want.
Click on “change password options” and then change the password for the group.
Set the new password options.
Enter a comment and click on “Execute Action.”
After the action is executed, it will appear on the ARM server, and SysAdmins can track its progress.
How to deactivate user accounts in bulk
Open ARM, click “Analysis” on the right side of the screen, and select “AD users” under “Categories.”
Select "All AD user accounts."
Set scenario options and click “Start calculations for your scenario.”
Narrow your selection using the sorting, filtering, grouping, and column features. Select the entries you want.
Click on “Deactivate user.”
Enter a comment and hit “Execute action.”
Using AD management software in bulk to perform routine aspects of Active Directory management saves administrators valuable time and makes securing their networks easier.
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Active Directory Groups Management
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SharePoint Permissions Management
SharePoint Audit Tool
Simplify NTFS Permissions Management
Exchange Auditing Software
Exchange Management Tool
File Server Auditing
Automated User Provisioning Software
Related tools
Security Event Manager
Patch Manager
Hybrid Cloud Observability and Security Observability
Related IT glossaries
What Is Active Directory?
What Are Active Directory Groups?
What Is Cybersecurity?
What Is an Access Control List?
What Is Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)? RBAC Guide

Keep Track of Assets With an Active Directory Management Tool

Access Rights Manager

Unlock comprehensive monitoring for AD, Exchange, SharePoint, and file server permissions.
Use an AD management tool to manage and provision user access quickly.
Effectively prepare for audits using AD management software, which can generate custom audit reports.

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