ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

Benefits:

Ease of use Easy to navigate interface Filters galore

Drawbacks:

No real cons to mention. Filters could be a bit much to an inexperienced user.

In sum:

Windows user auditing is a breeze with ADAudit.

Benefits:

Creating alerts as per ones requirement is the best feature like ransomware, of this app, one can get information on any change that is made in files or folders. able to check the files that aren't used since long and many more beautiful features one can achieve if configure effectively based on ones company requirement.

Drawbacks:

Forums not available , could be it is new in the market. well hope down the line the user would increase and a forum will be created that would help to get the solution and troubleshoot when and then needed.

In sum:

i was able to generate many reports like, Most access files, most modified files, Most access by process , Most access bu users, files accessed after the days mentioned one wanted and modified. moreover we can do file analysis like old files, Stale files, Unmodified files, Large files, Hidden files, etc.

Benefits:

Affordable and easy to use. It gathers a ton of useful information for internal audit support for SOX.

Drawbacks:

Breaks often, you need to keep an eye on it that it does not stop running if your relying on the data.

Benefits:

Simple reporting structure AD Audit Plus has is the coolest feature. You can dig deeper to any issue related to user accounts using this just with two three clicks.

Drawbacks:

If archiving option made simplified, it will be perfect. It gives a little hassle to retrieve log from the archive.

In sum:

Overall ManageEngine Audit Plus gives you a great AD Admin and Audit experience. I would love to recommend it.

Benefits:

Its quite simple to setup on the domain, we have a number of domain controllers and it connected to all of these just fine.

Drawbacks:

Some of the reports require some tweaking to get them working correctly.

Benefits:

We have integration with various products and mainly from our helpdesk. We use this to monitor changes to user accounts - we have some restricted groups for access to some systems, so if someone copies a user and the new user should not be in one of these groups, it blocks it and alerts us. Useful for tracking locked accounts as to where/why they are being locked. We use it daily to check failed logins, for example when someone with an expired password (or leaver) has left a PC logged in generating thousands of audit failures in AD. We can then identify and resolve these easily.

Drawbacks:

Setup for some of the above can be quite complex and we can sometimes catch ourselves out if the rules are too strict. (Manually adding someone to a group and forgetting we restricted it for example).

In sum:

Very useful product which integrates well with our systems and allows our L1 techs to keep a handle on user login issues on a daily basis without requiring any extra permissions in AD. Reports can be emailed on a schedule which we use for auditing 3rd part access to our systems for example.

Benefits:

Easy to add nodes as well as report generating. good GUI which make it much easier to access console and mange it.

Drawbacks:

Co-relation part of custom report generating is bit confusing for me but support team can help in same as well.

In sum:

Good.

Benefits:

I like how clear and easy to use the UI is, my biggest qualm with active directory is it seems like most of the fields are intersparsed in random places and it doesn't always give you a full picture of whats going on. With AD audit plus you are able to get clear concise information.

Drawbacks:

Sometimes the web UI glitches out, but this may be due to our implementation and not necessarily the software.

In sum:

We use this for tracking bad password attempts and keeping logs of group changes.

Benefits:

You can track active directory lockouts and find details of the lockouts. Has a good splash page that you can edit with different graphs.

Drawbacks:

Can be a bit clunky when trying to find search. Would be easier if you could quickly search by user.

Benefits:

I like all the functionalities that ADAudit Plus provides, it has plenty of features that i have yet to play around with. This product makes trouble shooting easier and root cause analysis a breeze.

Drawbacks:

Although AD audit has a bunch of features, the UI is a bit cluttered and intimidating if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. Once you know where things are, everything becomes easier.

In sum:

Overall i enjoy the product and would recommend this for reporting and troubleshooting AD issues.