Softerra Adaxes includes a wide variety of features essential to create a reliable and secure environment for streamlined and automated Active Directory management. Some of the most popular features include:
Active Directory Management
Enhanced Administration Environment
The enhanced environment for Active Directory administration allows IT personnel to manage AD more efficiently using advanced object modification facilities, multi-object operations, extended search capabilities and other useful functions.
Active Directory Web Interface
Active Directory Web Interface provided by Softerra Adaxes allows administrators, help desk personnel, and regular users to access Active Directory via a standard web browser to perform administrative tasks, update personal information, search for users and objects, etc.
User Self-Service
Using the Adaxes Web Interface users can perform self-service activities, like update own personal information and change own password, search Active Directory, and execute other operations, for which they have sufficient permissions.
Maintain Consistency and Enforce Standards
Softerra Adaxes provides Property Patterns that allow to apply formatting constraints to Active Directory objects, determine possible values for object properties, and compose some values automatically on the basis of the existing ones. This facilitates object creation and modification and helps to maintain Active Directory data consistency.
Custom Views of Active Directory Resources
Softerra Adaxes allows to unite AD objects in virtual collections called Business Units without modifying the structure of the Active Directory. Business Units are dynamic collections that include objects with the help of flexible membership rules, so newly created objects that correspond to their membership rules are automatically added to them. Business Units provide a possibility to manage collectively AD objects with similar functions or position, but from different locations.
PowerShell Module for Active Directory
The Adaxes PowerShell module enables administrators to perform Active Directory management from the command line. With the help of the PowerShell module, it is possible to automate Active Directory tasks like creating, updating or deleting objects, modifying group membership, provisioning new user accounts, etc.
Active Directory Security
Role-Based Security Administration
Softerra Adaxes provides the role-based security model that allows granular management and distribution of permissions on Active Directory objects. Permissions are combined according to the powers they grant into Security Roles. When Security Role permissions are modified, these changes affect all users or groups, to which the Role is assigned. In such a way, permissions can be managed centrally that makes the distribution of permissions more controlled and transparent.
Approval-Based Workflow
Approval-based model enables administrators to define operations that should be executed only after their execution is approved by a responsible person.
Logging of User Actions
All operations performed via Adaxes service are logged in the Service Log. Administrators and auditors can view who performed what operations, when, on what objects, etc.
Active Directory Reports
Active Directory reports preformed by Softerra Adaxes provide information on the AD infrastructure and objects status thus facilitating Active Directory analysis and monitoring. Any report can be generated for all domains, a specific domain, or a specific location in Active Directory.
Active Directory Automation
Automated User Provisioning
All Active Directory provisioning, re-provisioning, and deprovisioning procedures can be performed automatically after a user is created, updated or deleted. This assures that users will timely get all appropriate permissions and be added to necessary groups according to their positions, moved to the AD locations that correspond to their departments, provided home folders and Exchange mailboxes, etc.
Administrative Task Automation
Softerra Adaxes provides Business Rules to automate any administrative tasks and procedures. These tasks are combined in the sets of actions initiated, when a specific operation is executed in Active Directory. If necessary, the Business Rule actions can be executed only if certain conditions are met.
Streamlined AD Object Creation and Modification
Softerra Adaxes allows to simplify objects creation and modification with the help of Property Patterns. Property Patterns can compose property values of AD objects on the basis of the existing properties according to the defined patterns. This allows to specify only a few basic properties of AD objects, and the rest of them will be generated automatically.
SPML Integration
SPML Support provided by Softerra Adaxes allows to integrate Adaxes in SPML-enabled provisioning systems. This enables Adaxes to exchange provisioning data with SPML-compliant identity providers without complex and costly integration.
Integration and Extensibility
Exchange Support
Adaxes allows managing recipients in multiple Exchange servers from one administrative console. With the help of Business Rules, it is possible to automate the creation or Exchange mailboxes for new Active Directory users. Adaxes provides support for Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010.
Custom Scripts with ADSI Provider
The Adaxes ADSI Provider allows using the features of Softerra Adaxes to develop custom functionality that meets specific company needs.
Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance
Softerra Adaxes allows to install several Adaxes services that share their configuration. Users connect to the nearest available Adaxes service to avoid system overburdening, increase the utilization of network segments, and enhance the system liability.
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