Active Directory administrators, Help Desk technicians and other users of Active Directory enterprise networks face a variety of challenges such as updating large volume user information, automating routine tasks, searching information in Active Directory, distributing permissions, etc. To address these challenges, Softerra Adaxes provides extensive capabilities that facilitate management, tighten security and enhance administration of AD enterprise networks.

Directory management. Active Directory administrators need a solution to manage the Active Directory environment efficiently. Softerra Adaxes is the solution that facilitates AD management and reduces administrative workload enabling cross-domain management and furnishing extended capabilities for AD objects management via the easy-to-use Web Interface and the advanced Windows-based administrative environment.

Updating user personal information. Keeping user information up to date is a tiresome and time-consuming task. The easy-to-use Web Interface provided by Softerra Adaxes allows users to update their personal information, change own passwords and perform other AD operations for which they have sufficient permissions. Due to this, the most up-to-date information is always available and the workload of IT personnel is significantly reduced.

Searching information. Active Directory users need to search such information as phones, titles, emails or departments of their co-workers, but they do not have an efficient search tool. Softerra Adaxes provides convenient and easy-to-use facilities to perform the Active Directory search by various criteria that allows to find information quickly and simply.

Distribution of permissions. The distribution of permissions in a large network is a time-consuming and error-prone task. Softerra Adaxes provides Security Roles to simplify and organize this process. Administrators can create a Security Role with permissions necessary for a certain task and then just delegate this Role to the users who need to perform such task on specific resources.

Automating routine tasks. IT personnel need to perform a list of tedious routine tasks related to AD management that takes cost and time and involves error-prone repetitive actions. Using Business Rules and Custom Commands, AD administrators can automate routine tasks and significantly reduce the workload avoiding recurrent actions which cause errors and discrepancy.

Enforcing enterprise standards. AD administrators face a problem of creating a unified Active Directory environment with objects that correspond to the enterprise standards. For this purpose, Softerra Adaxes provides Property Patterns, which are used to define formatting constraints and auto-generating rules for AD objects. This allows to enforce corporate standards centrally and to avoid variants or different formatting of similar properties.

Facilitating AD objects creation and modification. When creating or modifying AD objects, it is often necessary to enter the same information for different properties that is a cumbersome and labor-intensive task. To facilitate this task, AD administrators can use Property Patterns, which allow to define default property values, generate values on the basis of other property values or choose a value from a predefined list. In such a way, the process of AD objects creation or modification is accelerated, and repetitive entering of the same information is avoided.

Monitoring Active Directory environment. IT personnel need information on Active Directory infrastructure and the state of AD objects to analyze and monitor the enterprise network. A comprehensive list of AD reports provided by Softerra Adaxes allows to receive necessary information in minimal time.

Control of critical operations. The execution of some critical operations can lead to undesired results, therefore, it requires control and verification. Softerra Adaxes provides approval-based workflow that allows to execute critical operations only after they are approved by a responsible person.

Tracking Active Directory operations. Tracking of Active Directory operations is necessary to facilitate identification and management of security issues. Softerra Adaxes keeps records on all operations performed via Adaxes Service in the Service Log. These log records allow to find out what operations were performed, when, on what objects, from which host, etc.