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."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The solution offers very good reports for management purposes."
"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 is more flexible and feature-rich than Apache."
"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 solution's technical support is good."
"The most valuable features are it is easy to use, manage, create a repository, and create the OM."
"The most valuable feature is the configured appliance system in Hypervisor."
"It is easy to handle, and it gives a hundred percent results with the group policies."
"It is an all-in-one solution for cybersecurity and is available at a very low price."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Active Directory are the management of user and group policies."
"With the number of available integrations these days, it would be beneficial to have more ready-to-integrate technologies in other products as well."
"I think the cost of this product is a little higher than I would expect."
"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 number of main controllers affects the database for creating the hardware specs."
"Some things are not very intuitive."
"Lacks sufficient integration with management tools."
"There is room for improvement in support, they should work on overall competence and turn-around time."
"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."
"There is room for improvement."
"UI is not very user-friendly."
"In the solution, assigning permissions is complex, making it difficult to grant them at a granular level or to multiple users without templates or alternative tools."
"The technical support team does not give prompt responses."
"There are no reporting features."
"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 cloud service of Microsoft Active Directory is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"If Microsoft is going to add anything to the on-prem solution, it should be an updated GUI."
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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