AdManager Plus is a powerful management tool that helps AD administrators and desk technicians to eliminate repetitive and complex AD Management tasks, like command lines and scripts, by automating routine tasks. This way it facilitates deletion of AD objects in Bulk and acts as an important resource during Compliance Audits.
The software's interface is built around simplicity, a contributing factor to this being the fact that it's entirely a web-based software. The main window is formed of a top tab menu, with several tabs, and the descriptive window of one of the tabs. It doesn't have any theme customizations, but the default color scheme is quite enjoyable so that shouldn't be a major issue.
Despite not having an impressing interface, considering nowadays standards, AdManager Plus offers a wide and powerful variety of features.
It has Active Directory Bulk User Management that helps users to better manage user accounts. It allows you to create multiple templates that contain standard user attribute values, which can be applied while creating users in bulk.
Also, with Active Directory Group Management Tool, users can simplify administration and achieve more flexibility, by adding or removing multiple group members, configuring exchange attributes or by doing bulk import from a CSV file at a single instance.
Other features include Help Desk Delegation, Active Directory Automation, Active Directory Cleanup, Active Directory Reports or Exchange Management.
To summarize, AdManager Plus is a powerful Active directory explorer, one which-despite having a manual and multiple tutorials- it's built for professionals, uses a high amount of system resources and, nonetheless, is quite expensive.
v6.3 [May 30, 2015]
Build 6310 (Jul 2015)
Enhancements:
Grant 'Send As' permission to Active Directory (AD) users during user creation and modification: You can now set the 'Send As' permission for users right during their onboarding process, in single or in bulk, using the new option added to the single and bulk user creation features; you can configure the 'Send As' permission for existing users too using the single user modification feature.
Flexible CSV-based modification of AD objects:The CSV import feature has been enhanced by adding the following options to offer more flexibility for modifying AD objects:
For multi-valued attributes: you can choose to either append the values specified in the CSV file to the attributes' existing values in AD, or overwrite their existing AD values with the values specified in the CSV file.
If the value of an attribute in the CSV file is empty, you can now choose to either clear the attribute's existing value in AD, or retain its current value in AD, as per your need.
Bulk modification of user creation templates: This option allows you to make the desired changes to multiple user creation templates at once. For example, consider the case where you wish to standardize the naming format for the logon name in a specific set of templates. Instead of modifying the relevant templates one after the other, you can set the desired naming format in all the relevant templates in a single action, using this option.
Fixes:
The following issues have been fixed in this release:
Issue in configuring the 'Enhanced Presence' setting for users in LCS/OCS
Error in exporting report data to XLSX format if the report contains date-related fields
'User Forum' link in the Support tab not being visible after enabling SSL
Error when a help desk technician tries to add AD users/computers to groups
Build 6300 (May 2015)
New Feature:
OU (organizational unit) Management provides the ability to perform the following tasks via ADManager Plus:
Create OUs
Modify OUs
Move OUs
Delete OUs
OU management also offers:
Bulk creation and management of OUs via CSV import
Customizable OU creation templates which allow you to fine tune the OU creation process to exactly meet your organizational demands
The ability to create a new parent OU, and then create the required OUs inside it.
Report from CSV: This report helps in viewing the Active Directory information of existing user and computer accounts. You can import the list of desired users and computers from a CSV file into ADManager Plus, which then extracts and displays the Active Directory details of those accounts.
This report also features an option to refine its result based on specific attributes mentioned in the CSV file; you can also customize the report by choosing the specific fields (columns) that you wish to view in the result.
Exchange ActiveSync Policy Management allows you to assign the appropriate ActiveSync policies for users, right while creating new accounts for them in Active Directory and MS Exchange Server. You can apply the ActiveSync policies while creating new user accounts in single and also in bulk.
Exchange Archive (online and on-premise) Management offers the flexibility to create archive mailboxes for users either on the cloud or on premises. Using this feature you can create archive mailboxes for users simultaneously while creating their Active Directory accounts and Exchange mailboxes; you can also enable archiving for those users who already have Exchange mailboxes.
Enhancements:
ADManager Plus now automatically synchronizes itself with the details of OUs and contact objects that are created or modified in Active Directory. This synchronization happens periodically throughout the day. Whenever needed, you can also manually synchronize the details of:
All new and modified OUs and contact objects in Active Directory using the update dashboard (in Dashboard) and update domain objects (in Domain Settings) options.
Only the modified/updated OUs and contact objects in Active Directory using the refresh option (in Select Container popup window while selecting the OUs for management and reporting).
Active Directory reporting has been enhanced with:
Addition of: add to group, remove from group and move objects, to the list of management tasks that can be performed from reports, via the 'More Actions' option present in them.
A revamped UI (layout) in reports for viewing the report results (objects fetched by the report)
Performance improvements for faster report generation
The report scheduler features a 'Run Now' option to allow ad-hoc execution of any existing report schedule.
Fixes:
HttpOnly setting has been enabled to fix security vulnerabilities.
Database cleanup issue is now fixed.
Issue in applying Exchange mailbox retention policy has been corrected.
SSL v3 has been disabled to guard against security vulnerabilities.
