Specops Active Directory Janitor

 

Active Directory maintenance

Maybe without knowing it you probably have a problem that grows bigger every day. An Active Directory structure that are full of obsolete computer and user objects. Have you any idea of how much information that is replicated around without any reason and slows down daily work? Do you know how this extra load affects your end users? Maybe you are aware of the problem and rely on dangerous scripts or other non-supported third party products?

The maintenance of Active Directory content needs to be done on a regular basis.

Problem:

After deploying Active Directory, most organizations have an ongoing and growing problem tracking outdated user and computer accounts that no longer correspond to actual physical users or computers.

Solution:

With Specops Active Directory Janitor you can search the entire network to easily identify these accounts. You can then decide, from a number of criteria’s, which ones that are outdated and finally delete, disable and/or move them.

Result:

The result is an up to date and accurate list of Active Directory resources on an ongoing basis. You will also maintain your Active Directory security level since high security risk accounts will be listed.

Specops Active Directory Janitor is very fast to get started with. Just select the computers, or users, from Active Directory that you would like to administer/scan and press a button. Violá, all your domain controllers are scanned, multithreaded, in real time and shows you information to make it easy for you to cleanup Active Directory accounts you consider old and obsolete.

Why purchase?

How do you solve your cleaning problems today, how much time does it take per year and how much do you and your manager value your time?

Answer the above questions and $1999.95 U.S. per enterprise license, or $399.95 U.S. for a Small Business license, makes the value proposition of Specops Active Directory Janitor crystal clear.

Clearly, the time invested by IT staff to continually use manual, inefficient, and insecure methods to maintain an accurate AD resource list greatly exceeds the nominal cost of Specops Active Directory Janitor.

Maintaining Active Directory is important since failing to do so will most likely result in unnecessary Active Directory maintenance cost increases.

Features

  • Easy to use standard Windows graphical interface.
  • Increase Active Directory security: Choose among 35 properties when scanning your network environment.
  • Pick user or computer accounts to scan in three different ways: Manually, from Active Directory and import.
  • Perform cleanup operations: Delete, disable, move and enable Active Directory accounts in seconds.
  • Export all or part of your scan results
  • Increase Active Directory security: Identify user accounts with high security risk
  • For the non-replicated account properties all domain controllers will be contacted and the most recent value will be used.

References

Russell Morgan, IT Specialist, BASF IT Services:

“AD Janitor is indeed a rare product. It works without complicated infrastructure or setup and is sensibly priced. Why can’t more AD tools adopt this model?”