We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADManager Plus and Microsoft Active Directory based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Active Directory Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Makes it easy to administer your active directory."
"The product helps to validate every activity."
"The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use, the ability for us to customize the access privileges for the users, and integration with ServiceDesk Plus."
"The scalability is also good. ADManager Plus is being used by seven to eight system administrators right now, and it has been working fine."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard. They allow me to see everything in real-time and drill down and pick and choose versus running scripts."
"The solution offers very good reports for management purposes."
"The most valuable feature was conducting the automation of our cloud and all services of the Active Directory."
"I can use Active Directory to block a user's internet access and monitor how an employee is using the internet."
"Active Directory is more flexible and feature-rich than Apache."
"The solution’s management capability is very good. The tool is also very scalable. You can add any number of users that you want to operate. Moreover, you can easily organize the solution."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"It's useful in bringing order to the system."
"The solution is easy to install and has good reliability."
"Stability and performance are good. So far, we have not observed any major downtime or performance issues since we deployed it."
"The most valuable feature is the configured appliance system in Hypervisor."
"It would be nice if the solution offered some sort of brochure with some high-level information that would help sell it to management. If they had details around how much time it saves an engineer, for example, to show the ROI, it would be helpful."
"Lacks sufficient integration with management tools."
"There is room for improvement in support, they should work on overall competence and turn-around time."
"Some things are not very intuitive."
"The bulk email ID creation must be improved. I had to create 50 to 60 IDs manually because when I tried the bulk option, it didn't work. I still had to cross-verify because some fields were empty."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"API integrations are not supported for all HR tools."
"This solution is not stable, it wasted my time."
"There is room for improvement in the support."
"The cloud service of Microsoft Active Directory is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"There are no reporting features."
"I did not have a good experience with the product's tech support. First-level support takes a lot of time since they ask many questions."
"I would like to see improvements in the solution’s security filtering feature. It can include machines and filter some users. There is no option to exclude a particular user or system."
"Active Directory's user experience is a little dated. Group policy management should be more customizable."
"Microsoft Active Directory fails to provide MFA. MFA, which is also known as multi-factor authentication on top of the password and username, is what I would like to see in the product's future releases."
"The product's premium support services could be less expensive."
ManageEngine ADManager Plus is ranked 1st in Active Directory Management with 13 reviews while Microsoft Active Directory is ranked 5th in Active Directory Management with 36 reviews. ManageEngine ADManager Plus is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Active Directory is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ManageEngine ADManager Plus writes "An effective auditing solution that scours your AD and produces easy-to-understand logs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Active Directory writes "A solution that easily merges with cloud-based ADs and provides superior data security". ManageEngine ADManager Plus is most compared with One Identity Active Roles, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADAudit Plus and Lepide, whereas Microsoft Active Directory is most compared with Ping Identity Platform, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0. See our ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. Microsoft Active Directory report.
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