ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

We Use ADAudit Plus to audit our AD on-prem and see who did what on accounts. This also allows us to track login attempts from an external source. We also use this platform to help manage stale accounts and accounts with too much privilege. We are also able to see what server users and admins are logging in.

We use ManageEngine ADAudit Plus as a security layer for AD activity audits, automatic detection of anomalous behavior, and also as a research tool to find users vs. computers.

We have been a ManageEngine ADAudit Plus customer for over eight years and have used it to monitor protected Active Directory groups. The groups that we primarily monitor are groups that have elevated privileges within Active Directory, such as Domain Admins, Domain Operators, and groups that have privileges to reset passwords. If a member is removed or added to one of these groups ManageEngine ADAudit Plus will generate an email alert that goes out to system admins.

Our company uses this product in multiple ways. We use it from a security and auditing perspective to monitor Windows logons to critical Windows devices, monitor account lockouts on how often they are occurring down to the source of the authentication and monitoring real-time changes in our Windows environment. From an auditing perspective we monitor file changes to critical locations, privileged user monitoring, peripheral device auditing and starting to integrate and use it in our cloud environments as well. The problems this products address for us are is provides us with deeper reporting then we used to have all of the auditing/security options available wit the product. The reporting is pretty deep, informative and easy to understand for all levels of management. Our scope and use case was for more enhanced reporting options from a security and auditing perspective in which this product excelled at for us and our needs.

We use it mostly for an information trail. It helps us troubleshoot, accidental deletions on our file server and changes to our Active Directory environment. Recently have been setting up more alerting around permission changes on objects and User creation activities.

We use ManageEngine as an SIEM system for reporting on AD and other events. Various of our customers require SIEM systems and ManageEngine met the needs. It's pretty lightweight. We have about 50 workstations and 2 active AD controllers. Not a lot of usage against the ManageEngine but it mostly does the job. See later in the review for the good, bad, and ugly.

We utilize it to address a gap in logging when it comes to tracking AD changes completed by our systems & support teams.

To quickly review/investigate changes made to user accounts, groups, computers, and NetApp directories. Get immediate alerts upon changes to critical accounts, etc. Investigate account and password lockout issues. Export required reports in pdf or excel format.

We use AdAudit to centrally repository all Active Directory user and system events. And do monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting on user interactions, permission changes, account creations, and deletions. And for helping find where people get locked out. Great tool for AD reporting all around! You can create reports in various file formats; pdf, csv, xls, etc for the necessary consumption needs.

AD Audit plus lets our IT staff track changes and alerts to AD activities. Security events and change management are easily tracked, recorded, and reported.

ManageEngine ADAudit plus has become an integral part of my day to day operations, it's used heavily on assisting our service desk team and the business as a whole with simple yet complex tasks such as unknown account lock outs, Reports of user activity i.e. logon and logoff reports, scheduling of reports, folder permission statuses. This has become a much needed tool in the technology arena.

I use ADAudit Plus to monitor attempts to access administrative accounts and notify via email. It also helps troubleshoot accounts that are continuously locked out and other anomalies on the network. It's great for monitoring who is accessing files from our file servers as well as our QNAP NAS. Any time an admin makes a change to Group Policy, I'm notified via the change was made, by whom, and what specifically was altered.

We use it for checking logins and auditing account usage. When did this user login? How many times did this user try to login today? Was this user logged in at this time? The feature used mose on this product for us is login activity tracking.

We used it to audit our Active Directory as part of our Cyber Security compliance. This solution made it easier for us to grab the reports needed on a daily basis. Also once we implemented our Azure AD this will be a great add-on for that deployment.

We are managing a large group of users and groups in multiple domains with our dedicated IT support group that consists of 5 domain admins and 35 power users. We also have a user provisioning application in-place that controls user creation and group addition/removal.
The enduser lead can manage groups for their employees using the provisioning application, all changes are audited in this application. For all the other changes that are made outside the tool we use AD Audit logging, but that is hard to manage because securitylogs ar fastly overwritten (even with high capacity log settings) and most of the time it is hard to find the specific changes you need.
Since we use ADAuditplus all these problems are gone and besides that we saw that ADauditplus had more capabilities that helped us to prefend looking in audit logs, because we now have the ability to set alerts for specific changes that we did not want to happen. For example the "password never expires" option, we dont want that to be set for any user. In ADAuditPlus I created a rule that send me and IT management an email that shows us who and when that specific change was made. We are very happy with ADauditplus, it helps us to maintain the high level security in our environment.

As a public company we need to be able to provide evidence of changes and ADAudit has save us many hours of searching for ways to provide this. From an operational point of view being able to search and find who, when, and what changed again saves man hours when trying to figure out instances where there is a mistake or question about why a persons access was changed.

We mainly use this for compliance reporting and to provide evidence for our ISO and financial audits. There are a plethora of reports to chose many of which would take us time to write scripts to pill the data but its all there are a click of a button. We also use this to report of file storage usages and has been essential when auditing file movement, deletetion etc

We use it to manage the active directories. It brings powerful tools that others don't have, and it's in an extremely intuitive interface. The reports are great, and it already has all the reporting we need without using our time creating them. It's easy to create and manage custom active directory attributes, which we use on a regular basis. We also use the user delegation tools; we have given HR access so they can also make employee changes.

We use AD Audit to manage all avenues of Active Directory. Monitoring of AD user's creation, change and deletes Monitoring of Admin accounts Monitoring of specific confidential file changes Monitoring of thresholds of changed files Monitoring of who deleted, changed, or moved files These are the basic functions we use, but there are many more that are in use.

We needed a tooll that we could use to monitor logging on, use of privileged accounts and troubleshoot used/locked out accounts. This met all of our expectations and is incredibly easy to use and comes in at a great price. The instant alerting, monitoring of multiple servers and reporting is great and offers an incredible insight to our environment as well as showing us things we didn't know before e.g. old accounts still in use, bad passwords etc. If any user is having issues with their account that we're not able to diagnose we can jump onto ADAudit plus and see where their account is being used and at what point it gets locked out or where the issues are caused. We've also used it to monitor group policy changes and implementations. Highly recommend it, we probably only use it for 5% of what it's capable of but it's easy to manage for a small team and also helps us with monitoring the environment overall. We liked it so much that we ended up implementing a few more ManageEngine products (ServiceDesk Plus, Desktop Central to name a few). I can't see us moving away from it - It does all we want and more for a great price and usability.

Being an entity with more than 4,000 employees, having control of what happens internally was a priority. With the audit we were able to correct errors in applications that logged in to different servers, user accounts that were no longer used, inherited permissions in folders, among others. It also made it easier for us to comply with the required regulations, as well as having information online for use in a matter of seconds.

We primarily use ManageEngine ADAudit Plus for our RDS environment, as the majority of our users log in to our Terminal Servers.
We retain the logs for all user login and log-off activities and are able to pull reports for various requests.
Additionally, we apply it to our AD environment to keep track of all changes that are made to our objects. This is very beneficial to us as we do have several Domain Admins with various access levels and need to be able to manage changes that are being made within our domain.

As mentioned, we tend to receive requests from time to time inquiring about user logon/logoff activities, especially with the new hybrid work approach. The reports from ManageEngine ADAudit Plus are amazing and very clean for us to provide to department heads to allow them to measure employees' attendance and their overall productivity levels.

We use ManageEngine ADAudit Plus to monitor and log all changes to the active directory environment, as well as modifications to certain network share folders for file modification/creation/deletion. There are strict regulations that we adhere to as a company, and this has allowed us to maintain auditing logs and provide evidence during audits where applicable.

Currently using the product to comply with security regulations in place within the state of the organization. The product is lightweight, does not give any trouble running on the current servers, is easy to manage, easy to process reports, and support is always helpful when needed. Best of all, the product checks all the requirements set forth to comply with the regulation.

Monitoring server logs is hard. With all the background noise in the logs, it's hard to spot problems. ManageEngine ADAudit Plus does a great job of sifting through the fluff and getting to the meat. I know who logged on, whether it's their normal behavior, bad passwords, etc. I can also check if new accounts are being created by malware or hackers.