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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Valuable Features

Md Abdul Hakim - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited

I have been involved with this product for the last three years, participating in service and support within our company. 

We are currently supporting over 30 companies. This month, we deployed the solution for three companies, including two RMGs and one private bank in Bangladesh. The popularity of this product is due to its active directory monitoring abilities. 

Engineers can receive reports and log details within one to five seconds, which is essential for monitoring user activity swiftly and effectively.

This product is very well-liked in Bangladesh due to user tracking, failed logins, and Jar reports for any Barna activity or execution. This solution's popularity extends through comprehensive auditing capabilities.

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NK
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

Some of the most valuable features of ADAudit Plus are the granular parts of the reports fetched from Active Directory. These reports are based on events and the analysis part, which is clear for everyone. This makes me happy. The audit functionality and the ability to share user-based reports with management are significant advantages.

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Karthik G - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Pre-sales Specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

The key functionalities of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus are primarily Active Directory reporting, where we create the whole user life cycle management, such as when users are created, who created them, when users are deleted, what group memberships changed, and not just for users, but for all Active Directory objects, users, computers, groups, and group policies. All changes are recorded immediately in real-time and reported for forensic analysis of incidents including who created them, what exactly changed, and what were the old and new values for the attributes.

In case of a ransomware attack on a particular server, we can check what process created the files and what files have changed, even with features such as attack surface analyzer that help administrators see what's happening in their local Active Directory regarding password attacks.

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus provides real-time tracking capabilities through agent installation, which works in real-time to collect information and immediately alerts if anything matches the defined conditions in the application.

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BS
Senior Engineer - Network & Security at Altria Consulting

What is excellent about this product, specifically in ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, is that it has many default reports. We don't need any custom reports to be generated because there are so many in-built reports. A customer can get any detailed information from the in-built reports, and they don't need to create any other custom reports. Most of the reports are available.

The detailed insights into logon activities and file access changes provided by the product are beneficial, as the default reports include all the relevant details. Most of the customers don't purchase the file auditing part; they mainly audit user logon and workstation activity.

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WC
Senior Systems Engineer at Accurate Corrosion Control, Inc.

The solution's most valuable feature is the network security offered by the tool. One of the features we use in the tool tells our company if a user has been added to a group, especially a privileged group like domain admins, administrators, enterprise admins, and schema admins. In my organization, we get an email immediately if a user gets added to one of those groups.

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JS
Student at Rabdan Academy

The Account Lockout Analyzer and the Inactive Users reports are particularly valuable. The Account Lockout Analyzer helps us identify and resolve account lockout issues, while the Inactive Users report provides details on users who haven't logged in for a specific duration.

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Park Armstrong - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical and Solution Architect at Vertigo Inc.

Real-time monitoring of AD changes and logons is valuable.

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Hussein Taha - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Enterprise System Administrator at Nafeza

The active directory is valuable.

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Karthik G - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Pre-sales Specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

I like the user behavior analytics (UBA). It's a machine learning feature that creates a standard profile for each user when you install it. It creates a baseline for every user, so it can detect when anyone deviates from that standard baseline profile. For example, if a user typically logs in at 9:30 am and logs out at 6 pm, ADAudit will flag it as an anomaly when that same logs in after normal hours and alert the admins.

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MS
IT Administrator at Qatar Diyar

Our company concentrates on user work hours to get all the users to connect to the end machines and see their work. We also use this solution for logo-related items. The documentation for this solution is good.

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Elgin Smith - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is its reports.

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Edu Edu - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Analyst at Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development

I am impressed with the tool's tracking ability. It is intuitive and easy to use. 

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Dmytro Petrashchuk - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at IT Specialist LLC

ADAudit Plus's best features are that it's very easy to use with a user-friendly interface, and it gives reports on group policy and object changes that we couldn't find in any other product.

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reviewer1709280 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature is the control of the file server.

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MS
IT Administrator at Qatar Diyar

The most valuable feature is really the reason for the product and that is monitoring activity. The product gives us a lot of information. There are a lot of reports. It takes all the audits correctly. It monitors all the management activities such as user management and group management — everything that we need to know is monitored. You also get a file auditor, which is a very good feature. From this, we get a lot of information like what files are added, which files have been edited, what files have moved, and what files have been deleted. It is complete file monitoring. 

We also have the workstation audit component installed so we can see login activities, local user work hours — like how many hours they worked with particular things. We are collecting all that data and we are able to review all of that information.  

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Buyer's Guide
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
August 2025
Learn what your peers think about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: August 2025.
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