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Active Directory permissions reports

On a day-to-day basis, organizations need to be wary of major security threats like insider attacks and espionage. Warding off potential attackers can go a long way in securing your organization's network and data. To accomplish this, a complete understanding of the permissions assigned to users and groups in your Windows Active Directory (AD); the accounts, resources, and data that they can access; their NTFS and share permissions; and the operations that they can perform. In other words, detailed Active Directory permissions reports are crucial for maintaining security and compliance.

These permissions reports are also necessary for passing compliance audits for various regulations such as SOX, HIPAA, the GLBA, FISMA, the GDPR, and the PCI DSS. To obtain a comprehensive overview of AD permissions, you would normally have to rely on PowerShell or other scripting languages outside of the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) console, since it offers no help for AD reporting.

ADManager Plus offers a dedicated Active Directory permissions auditing tool that simplifies this process. It provides purpose-built reports that make it easy to view all permissions assigned to users and groups in AD, access rights, user access audits, and more. With this AD permissions reporter tool, you can effortlessly generate comprehensive AD permissions reports and ensure effective AD permissions management.

Windows Active Directory permissions reporting with ADManager Plus

ADManager Plus is an Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and Exchange management and reporting tool, and it offers a predefined report library, including permissions-based reports. With this Active Directory permissions auditing tool, you can easily generate detailed reports such as:

• AD objects accessible by users and groupsView all groups, computers, folders, NTDS service objects, and more that specified AD users and groups can access, along with the permissions (read all properties, read logon information, write, list contents, change password, delete, full control, and more), and type of permission (allow or deny) they have for each object.
• Servers accessible by users and groupsSee all computers (servers and workstations) that selected AD users and groups can access, the operating systems of these computers, and the types of permissions (allow or deny) these machines have along with the complete list of operations users and groups can perform on them.
• Folders accessible by users and groupsDisplays all the shared folders specified AD users and groups can access, the complete list of permissions or actions they can perform, and the type of permission (allow or deny) they have for the actions listed.
• Subnets accessible by users and groupsShows all subnets the selected users or groups in AD have access to. It also lists all operations that the selected users or groups are allowed and not allowed to perform in the subnets.
• Permissions for foldersDisplays the users and groups who have permissions to access specified folders and their corresponding permissions. For groups, this report also displays the group members, which in turn helps you figure out which groups and users can access the selected folder (as a result of being a member of the group).
• Server permissionsLists all users and groups who can access the selected servers and computers along with information on the domain they belong to, the permissions they have, and their security identifier (object SID).
• Subnet permissionsView the users and groups that have access to the specified subnets and the permissions they have along with details such as their domain name, the object type, and object SID.
• Groups for usersFor every selected user, this report displays the groups that they are members of along with information such as all the members (users and groups) in each of those groups, the domain in which the groups are located, the group type (distribution group or security group), group scope (universal, global, or domain local), and the location of the groups in AD.

IT compliance reports

Besides reports based on the AD permissions of groups and users, ADManager Plus also offers many other reports that are necessary for proving adherence to compliance standards such as HIPAA, SOX, FISMA, the GLBA, the GDPR, and the PCI DSS. Some of the other available reports include information on:

• User accounts and groups created, modified, or deleted during the last N days
• Users who have not changed their password in the last N days
• Locked-out users
• Users with expired accounts

Click here to learn more about the list of Active Directory reports.

With these purpose-built reports, ADManager Plus makes it easy to analyze and manage the permissions of AD users and groups and ensure that they can perform only the operations that they are supposed to perform.

ADManager Plus is an IGA solution for all AD, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, and Google Workspace management and reporting needs. It offers more than 200 prepackaged AD reports with built-in management actions that include detailed Active Directory permissions reports and AD permissions reporting. This tool allows you to securely delegate OU and group-based AD tasks to help desk technicians. It also offers customizable workflows to help you streamline and monitor the execution of AD tasks and automate critical tasks and routines.

Benefits of using ADManager Plus for AD permissions reporting