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Active Administrator

Broad Active Directory Management in a Single Product

Active Administrator is an enterprise Active Directory management solution that addresses the auditing, security, recovery and health of Active Directory from one integrated console. This centralizes the management of the most important aspects of Active Directory and Group Policy so that administrators save time and have the most control over their environment. With Active Administrator, you can:

  • Achieve compliance easily with extensive audit trail, robust access controls and formatted reports 
  • Tighten security by standardizing management, assessing the current settings, eliminating access of over-privileged users and ensuring consistent delegation
  • Maintain business continuity and reduce downtime by proactively alerting users about changes and recovering quickly from accidental changes or errors
  • Increase efficiency by using automated "self-healing" templates and rapidly undo changes and Group Policies

Active Administrator is developed and supported by ScriptLogic (a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software).

  • Easy Auditing & Change Control - Use one consolidated audit record to see changes in Active Directory, Group Policy and Active Administrator. Customize according to your needs to get flexible reporting, alerting and event filtering to quickly see what happened in your enviornment. Automate and schedule workflow and have Active Administrator take actions when certain changes happen.
  • Simplified Security Management - Streamline how you apply security policies and permissions. Find and fix over-privileged users fast. Manage change control with a centralized audit trail of all changes. Provision and limit areas of access in Active Administrator to only the essential features.
  • Effortless Group Policy Administration - Manage, report, compare, roll back and analyze changes in Group Policy from one place. Use “modeling” to simulate changes and test “what-if” scenarios and the offline repository to be safe. Keep automated backups and version history with auditing so you can undo changes anytime.
  • Automated Account Clean Up and Management - Rapidly scan for -- and identify -- inactive users and computers in a domain environment, clean up these accounts, and proactively manage them going forward with automation. Set up reminders to go to users with expiring or expired passwords.
  • Fast Backup & Recovery - Back up and recover essential Active Directory and Group Policy information from one console. Preview and quickly restore one or more items from your automated backups including users, OUs, objects, attributes, group memberships and individual Group Policy versions.
  • Active Directory Health Checks - Generate reports on assessments of  Active Directory health for the three areas where the most serious issues occur within your environment – configuration, replication and DNS.

System Requirements

Active Administrator Server and Console 

Platform

1 GHz or higher Intel Pentium-compatible CPU

Memory (RAM)1 GB or more 
Hard Disk Space

100 MB or more of free disk space, not including Active  Administrator database

Screen Resolution1024x768
Operating Systems

Active Administrator Server:

· Microsoft Windows Server 2003, R2, 2008, 2008 R2 (all editions)

· Win2000 DC notes:
Auditing agents support auditing for Windows 2000 & higher DCs. Recovery requires at least one Win2003 SP1 or higher DC on the domain.

Active Administrator Console Application: 

· Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7

Both 32- or 64-bit architectures are supported. 

Database Server · Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 (all editions) 

· Microsoft SQL Server Express (all editions above)

Both 32- or 64-bit architectures are supported. 
Additional Requirements

· Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 (all editions)

· Microsoft SQL Server Express (all editions above)

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