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.
v7.0 [May 11, 2019]
New Feature:
- Over 10 new management operations including Add or Remove Office 365 Group Owners, Modify Calendar Permissions, and more.
- Over 4 new Office 365 mailbox-based reports.
- A flat, sleek and intuitive UI for enhanced performance and user experience.
Enhancements:
- Option to select templates during bulk group and computer creation.
- Ability to display the number of available licenses during Office 365 license management.
- Option to view which technician has imported which CSV file or exported which report using the Data Administration option in the Audit Reports if Data Privacy is enabled.
- Option to add Custom Reports as quick links to the custom dashboard.
- Option to add an image URL to the logo displayed in the product.
- Option to fine-tune AD search according to the domain or object type.
- Option to exclude child OUs and view custom attributes of users in the Employee Search option in the product login page.
- Ability to notify administrators whenever the product is down.
- Option to perform Search and Export As operations in AD Explorer.
- Ability to display the details of all the groups specified in a CSV file, whenever the Reports from CSV report is generated.
- Option to view all the permissions of a specific folder within the Permissions for Folders report.
- Option to encode the data to be sent via SMS by configuring the SMS gateway settings.
Fixes: The following issues have been fixed:
- Unable to update the msExchPoliciesIncluded attribute while modifying groups using a CSV.
- Audit Report does not display information about the Office 365 license management operations performed during single user creation.
- Not being able to generate the Unlicensed Users report again, after adding columns to the previously generated report.
- Not being able to select OUs while automating the Modify Users by Template operation using an automation policy.
- Unable to automatically update the names of renamed OUs in the delegated OUs lists of help desk technicians.
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