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ManageEngine ADManager Plus pros and cons

Vendor: ManageEngine
4.0 out of 5
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PROS

Almost every feature is valuable, including importing and exporting to the active directory from the CSC firewall.
Automation capabilities, especially for cloud services and Active Directory, are highly praised.
Reporting features are highlighted as crucial for management and understanding data.
The integration with ServiceDesk Plus and ability to customize access privileges are appreciated.
Vulnerability management and system patching functionalities are considered valuable.

CONS

The complexity in managing with over 1,000 users makes administration challenging.
The bulk email ID creation process is ineffective and requires manual intervention.
ManageEngine ADManager Plus lacks sufficient integration with HR tools and management applications.
The API integrations do not cover all necessary tools, affecting its usability.
Pricing concerns arise due to its perceived high cost without a clear demonstration of ROI.
 

ManageEngine ADManager Plus Pros review quotes

reviewer947091 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 21, 2019
Almost every feature of the solution is valuable to me. This includes the importing and exporting to the active directory from the CSC firewall.
AN
System Administrator at AWT International- Croatia
Jan 9, 2020
The solution offers very good reports for management purposes.
reviewer947091 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 12, 2020
The most valuable feature was conducting the automation of our cloud and all services of the Active Directory.
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reviewer1709280 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Nov 2, 2021
Makes it easy to administer your active directory.
Saqib Akbar - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Operations Coordinator at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Aug 24, 2022
The scalability is also good. ADManager Plus is being used by seven to eight system administrators right now, and it has been working fine.
Stephen Naval - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Manager IT Infrastructure & Tech Development at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 11, 2022
The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand.
Hussein Taha - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Enterprise System Administrator at Nafeza
Dec 5, 2022
It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users.
Feb 13, 2023
Simple with good automation.
Kimberly Brock - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Security Engineer & Data Governance at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
May 8, 2023
The most valuable feature is the dashboard. They allow me to see everything in real-time and drill down and pick and choose versus running scripts.
JS
Student at Rabdan Academy
Jul 13, 2023
The most valuable feature for me is automation.
 

ManageEngine ADManager Plus Cons review quotes

reviewer947091 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 21, 2019
The solution is very complex, especially when there's an active directory of more than 1,000 users, which makes it hard to administrate. They need to improve the management of the administrative process.
AN
System Administrator at AWT International- Croatia
Jan 9, 2020
It would be nice if the solution offered some sort of brochure with some high-level information that would help sell it to management. If they had details around how much time it saves an engineer, for example, to show the ROI, it would be helpful.
reviewer947091 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 12, 2020
This solution is not stable, it wasted my time.
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reviewer1709280 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Nov 2, 2021
I think the cost of this product is a little higher than I would expect.
Saqib Akbar - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Operations Coordinator at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Aug 24, 2022
The bulk email ID creation must be improved. I had to create 50 to 60 IDs manually because when I tried the bulk option, it didn't work. I still had to cross-verify because some fields were empty.
Stephen Naval - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Manager IT Infrastructure & Tech Development at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 11, 2022
API integrations are not supported for all HR tools.
Hussein Taha - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Enterprise System Administrator at Nafeza
Dec 5, 2022
The number of main controllers affects the database for creating the hardware specs.
Feb 13, 2023
Lacks sufficient integration with management tools.
Kimberly Brock - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Security Engineer & Data Governance at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
May 8, 2023
Some things are not very intuitive.
JS
Student at Rabdan Academy
Jul 13, 2023
With the number of available integrations these days, it would be beneficial to have more ready-to-integrate technologies in other products as well.