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:

Directory Management

Softerra Adaxes facilitates AD management and reduces administrative workload enabling cross-domain management and furnishing extended capabilities for management of AD objects via the easy-to-use Web Interface and the advanced Windows-based administrative environment.
For details, see Directory Management.

Role-Based Security Administration

Role-based administrative model enables administrators to efficiently distribute permissions by assigning specific Security Roles to AD users.
For details, see Security Roles Overview.

Business Rules

With the help of Business Rules, administrators can automate their routine day-to-day tasks.
For details, see Business Rule Overview.

Property Patterns

Property Patterns help to avoid repetitive entering of the same information and to observe multiple enterprise standards when creating or modifying Active Directory objects.
For details, see Property Pattern Overview.

Business Units

Business Units are used to organize AD objects in an alternative way in order to manage them collectively.
For details, see Business Unit Overview.

SPML Connectors

SPML Connectors send SPML requests to registered SPML services, when certain operations are performed in Active Directory.
For details, see SPML Connectors Overview.

Active Directory Reports

AD reports allow analyzing and monitoring the state of the Active Directory environment.

Approval Requests

Approval-based model enables administrators to define operations that should be executed only after their execution is approved by a responsible person.
For details, see Approvals and Requests.

Service Log

Administrators and auditors can view who performed what operations, when, on what objects, etc.
For details, see Logging.

Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance

It is possible to install several Adaxes services that share their configuration. In this case, Adaxes clients are connected to the nearest available Adaxes service, that ensures fault tolerance and load balancing.
For details, see Share Configuration between Services.

Backup/Restore Service Configuration

With the help of a special command-line tool (Softerra.Adaxes.BackupRestore.exe), the configuration of any Adaxes service can be backed up and restored.
For details, see Backup/Restore Service Configuration.

Adaxes ADSI Provider

Using the Adaxes ADSI Provider users can implement the functionality that corresponds to the specific needs of their company.
For details, see Adaxes ADSI Provider.

Adaxes SPML Provider

Adaxes SPML Provider is a web service running by IIS that receives SPML requests and transforms them in AD operations.
For details, see Adaxes SPML Provider.

Adaxes Service Management

Using the Adaxes Administration Console, administrators can easily manage the Adaxes services and their configuration.
For details, see Adaxes Service Management.

See Feature Summary for the complete list of features provided by Adaxes