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."The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand."
"Makes it easy to administer your active directory."
"The most valuable feature for me is automation."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"Almost every feature of the solution is valuable to me. This includes the importing and exporting to the active directory from the CSC firewall."
"Simple with good automation."
"The product helps to validate every activity."
"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 ability for a single sign-on for applications."
"The user-friendliness of Microsoft Active Directory is a valuable feature."
"We can also have separate domain controllers in different Active Directory sites based on their location."
"The most valuable feature is the configured appliance system in Hypervisor."
"The most valuable features are it is easy to use, manage, create a repository, and create the OM."
"The solution is user-friendly, and I like using Microsoft products. I think there is no other choice for Active Directory. Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory is the best."
"One noteworthy aspect we discovered is the ability to exercise tight control over systems, specifically Windows PCs. This pertains to the management of policies, usage patterns, and user access on these devices, particularly within the framework of Active Directory which is extremely well thought. This actually works better with on-premises solutions. However, as the global trend shifts towards cloud and hybrid environments, Active Directory and its use is diminishing. Yet, it hasn't entirely lost its relevance and remains a presence that cannot be entirely disregarded."
"The solution is easy to install and has good reliability."
"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."
"Lacks sufficient integration with management tools."
"With the number of available integrations these days, it would be beneficial to have more ready-to-integrate technologies in other products as well."
"There is room for improvement in support, they should work on overall competence and turn-around time."
"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."
"The solution is very complex, especially when there's an active directory of more than 1,000 users, which makes it hard to administrate. They need to improve the management of the administrative process."
"The number of main controllers affects the database for creating the hardware specs."
"It could be more stable."
"The security features could be improved."
"The DNS services could improve in Microsoft Active Directory."
"The interface for logs should be user-friendly and allow for enhanced filtering to drill down to incidents."
"We may occasionally experience difficulty integrating some solutions with Microsoft Active Directory, but I am unsure whether the issue lies with Microsoft Active Directory or the other solution."
"Microsoft Active Directory could improve by having better integration with other solutions."
"If Microsoft is going to add anything to the on-prem solution, it should be an updated GUI."
"The technical support team does not give prompt responses."
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 PingFederate, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0. See our ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. Microsoft Active Directory report.
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