Microsoft Active Directory Reviews

Active Directory provides centralized identity and access management, and it integrates well with many Microsoft products, which are very prevalent. We have end-user systems like Windows 10 or 11, SharePoint, and the mailing solution Exchange or maybe Office 365. It works well with all these things, and that's the reason we have chosen Active Directory.

One valuable feature is the centralized creation of IDs. Another is the creation of groups, which helps us to compartmentalize access or controls. Additionally, the delegation capability allows us to limit access for managing the Directory. This is really time-saving since I don't need to create users in each server or system manually, and user access control is streamlined. Permissions can be granted to a group or specific folder with one or two clicks in Active Directory, avoiding the need to add groups or people individually.

The use cases for Microsoft Active Directory are managing all users on-premises. We have over 200 employees and multiple computers, approximately over 200 computers. We have shared computers and shared user accounts, which is why we use Microsoft Active Directory, along with Group Policy and all that other functionality that comes with it.

The best features of Microsoft Active Directory are the OUs, the groups, and how everything is set up relatively quickly. If I change a password or need to reset a password, the information propagates relatively quickly, and the structuring inside is easy to understand and use. It also works effectively with other Microsoft products.

I would assess the impact of Microsoft Active Directory's centralized domain management on our organization's security protocols and access permissions as satisfactory. Our protocols are relatively good, but with different vendors, many that need service accounts utilize legacy systems which aren't up to par, requiring us to make exceptions.

Microsoft Active Directory is an authentication infrastructure.

The most valuable feature of the solution is authentication.

We are still on a hybrid environment where we have Azure Directory on-premises, and sync it up to Microsoft.

The password policy helps enforce security protocols by requiring complex passwords and frequent password changes. Additionally, we do not allow users to reuse their last twelve passwords.

I find the product makes it easier to enhance various tools with Microsoft Active Directory. Active Directory can be either on-premises and can also synchronize with the online version of Microsoft Entra.

I find the solution very useful. I can control all the devices in my domain by just changing the group policies in one place.

We use Microsoft Active Directory as an identity provider. Active Directory checks users and accounts.

It is extremely easy to use compared to the other identity providers. It also allows us to have group policies for all sorts of authentication. It also supports Cisco's 802.1X authentication. Moreover, it’s easy to integrate with any kind of product that will support Active Directory authentication.

We use it to manage the users to start with and to add on security and networks. Whatnot, you can do is authentication, multifactor authentication, enabling user access externally is also possible. We also use it for federation service. So far, we are using all the features of AD. 

We are using most of the features because we are a large organization. So we need those kinds of services or features coming for enterprise versions, and we use most of it because we are 20,000+ people.

Our company is one of Australia's largest virtual IT groups with more than 120 users and 15 managers. 

We use the solution as an on-premises domain controller for our customers under various environments. 

Some customers have on-premises servers and domain controllers so the solution is installed and managed locally. 

Other customers have on-premises servers but want to migrate their mail server to Office 365 so we pair the solution with Azure AD's cloud service to create a hybrid model. The same passwords can be used for the solution and Azure AD by syncing them together through a password writeback process in Azure AD Connect. 

A third group of customers work only with Office 365 in cloud environments so we deploy only Azure AD for those use cases. 

The Solution's most important feature is that it can merge with a cloud-based active directory via Azure AD Connect. Managing active directories that are stored in two different places is a nightmare for network administrators and users, so this is an important feature. 

The solution supports and can integrate with both on-premises and cloud-based third-party applications such as Azure VPN, P2S, Intune, and MDM. Pairing with Azure AD to accomplish this is a unique feature.