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 scalability is also good. ADManager Plus is being used by seven to eight system administrators right now, and it has been working fine."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"Makes it easy to administer your active directory."
"Simple with good automation."
"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 most valuable feature for me is automation."
"Active Directory makes managing user policies easier, like when a user wants to share files. We also use it to create and manage our email accounts."
"It's quite easy to integrate into other directories."
"The Solution's most important feature is that it can merge with a cloud-based active directory via Azure AD Connect."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The scalability of the solution is high...The initial setup of the solution is easy, and I would rate it an eight or nine out of ten on a scale of one to ten, where one being difficult and ten being easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"The ability for a single sign-on for applications."
"The user-friendliness of Microsoft Active Directory is a valuable feature."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"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."
"With the number of available integrations these days, it would be beneficial to have more ready-to-integrate technologies in other products as well."
"This solution is not stable, it wasted my time."
"Some things are not very intuitive."
"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 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."
"There is room for improvement in support, they should work on overall competence and turn-around time."
"The technical support team does not give prompt responses."
"If you are using the Active Directory, the main concern is that the policy is restricted to the specific local area network."
"Active Directory's user experience is a little dated. Group policy management should be more customizable."
"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."
"The interface for logs should be user-friendly and allow for enhanced filtering to drill down to incidents."
"UI is not very user-friendly."
"If Microsoft is going to add anything to the on-prem solution, it should be an updated GUI."
"The solution needs to be simplified to navigate."
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, Auth0 and CyberArk Identity. See our ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. Microsoft Active Directory report.
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