Category: Network Management

Real-Time Change Auditing for ​Windows Active Directory

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus recently announced the addition of real-time change auditing for Windows Active Directory. Available immediately, the new feature provides administrators with real-time email alerts, when critical and unauthorized changes are made to AD. Similarly, administrators can view a real-time, live feed of alerts in the ADAudit Plus console along with a thorough analysis of “who did what, when and from where” in the solution’s 200+ pre-configured audit reports

ManageEngine UserConf14 Is Here!

The ManageEngine   UserConf is at our doorstep! And we’ve been waiting for it with bated breath. Fun-filled discussions late at night, mails flying across the globe, fiery brainstorming sessions, impromptu huddles at the face of a hurdle – this is how the past few weeks have been at ManageEngine .

Middle Eastern & African IT Professionals Often Pass On Secure Password Management

The   GITEX   Technology Week in Dubai gave   ManageEngine   the opportunity to interact with a cross-section of IT professionals from the Middle East and Africa, and we found that password security is still largely neglected.  IT organizations in the Middle East and Africa are quite interested in tightening security controls.

Active Directory Delegation: It Does Not Need to Be Hard!

One of the most important and powerful reasons that organizations consider Active Directory is the fact that delegation is built into the product. W indows NT did not have delegation, unless you want to call membership in the Account Operators group delegation! Windows Active Directory provides ​ a simple method , using the Delegate Control Wizard, to grant a group of users granular control over all or even just a subset of your Active Directory objects. For example, if you have a help desk that should have the ability to reset passwords for all users except for those in IT, you can delegate this permission to the OU that contains the non-IT employees

Safely Delegating Password Reset Capability in Active Directory

I have been preaching for years about how powerful Active Directory is in the ability to delegate control over certain tasks and certain objects in Active Directory. One of the most obvious delegations is giving a one group of users the ability to reset passwords for a different group of users. There are a few issues using the Microsoft solution, and those issues can cause insecure settings, hard-to-report delegations, and access to AD that is hard to find and remove