Group Policy Management

Active Administrator Listing updated: January 23, 2008

The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services. Active Directory has native tools for basic administration, but, lack enterprise-class management capabilities that give administrators the ability to view, audit and report on the ever-changing state of their Active Directory infrastructure.

Active Administrator is an Active Directory management and auditing solution that takes over where the management tools supplied with Windows leave off. Active Administrator, the Active Directory solution from ScriptLogic provides administrators the ability to establish, view and enforce delegated security throughout Active Directory management, perform Group Policy management including Group Policy reporting and Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) as well as auditing and reporting of changes within Active Directory.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.82 [17 votes] - Vote
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EmpowerID Role Enforcer Listing updated: May 23, 2008

Role Enforcer implements EmpowerID's Role-Based Entitlement Management platform with system and resource agnostic modules to discover, administer, audit, and enforce a single role-based authorization model across different enterprise systems regardless of the technology. EmpowerID's RBAC system automates the granting of application and resource access based upon a person's job function and where they work within an organization. As these changes, unneeded access is removed and new access granted without requiring manual administrative intervention. This "state management" by policy for entitlements prevents the accumulation of privileges over time that can lead to disastrous security breaches.

Role Enforcer modules extend this management by policy to inventory, discover, and manage permissions for specific types of protected enterprise resources. Each system typically has its own idiosyncratic security model and a set of security user interfaces. Role Enforcer bypasses the need to learn this model and use these interfaces by centralizing security on the shared role-based model and translating the results into a format that the system understands and can implement. Many systems can communication with EmpowerID in real-time for external authorization but EmpowerID also supports traditional systems upon which the policies and rules must be translated and pushed down.
  • Users' Rating: 4.33 [12 votes] - Vote
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GPAnywhere Listing updated: May 23, 2008

GPAnywhere allows “portable” policies to be created from Group Policy Objects and apply them to any end point including a Virtual Application. GPAnywhere makes Group Policy “portable” to reach beyond AD.

GPAnywhere lets you: Create portable policies; Deliver policies to target devices anywhere; Enforce policies on target devices; Use policy to manage devices outside AD
  • Users' Rating: 3.33 [3 votes] - Vote
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GPExpert Desktop Policy Manager Listing updated: September 11, 2008

Using Group Policy to secure and configure your Windows desktops doesn’t have to be hard! Are you overwhelmed by the 1000s of settings within Group Policy? Looking to simplify your desktop management but want to be able to leverage the power of Group Policy? It’s easy with SDM Software’s innovative Desktop Policy Manager product.

Desktop Policy Manager provides a web interface for managing desktop configuration using Group Policy. You never have to see the GP Editor—never have to think about where to link a GPO or what permissions to apply. Just select the policy templates to include (e.g. drive mappings, application restrictions, IE security, system security and more) and the computers or users to target, and DPM does the rest!
  • Users' Rating: 5 [4 votes] - Vote
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GPOADmin Listing updated: May 22, 2009

With Group Policy regulating everything from critical business processes and security settings to individual workstations and printers, managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can become time-consuming and expensive. NetPro’s award-winning GPOADmin boosts the Microsoft Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) so you can automate critical administration tasks. Verify and compare changes made to a GPO over time or confirm the consistency of GPO settings between different GPOs. Compare two GPMC backups, a GPMC backup and an active GPO, two active GPOs, within or across domains, or varying versions of a single GPO at different times. And drive unparalleled control and efficiency into your Windows servers and desktops.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.75 [36 votes] - Vote
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Group Policy Manager Listing updated: June 19, 2006

Group Policy Manager offers Group Policy Object (GPO) management capabilities, so organizations can deploy and manage GPOs for better security and control of their IT infrastructure.

Built to augment the Microsoft GPMC, Group Policy Manager provides GPO management with additional features such as version control, offline GPO editing, enhanced RSoP reporting, archival and restoration, templates, change notification and approval, quick rollback and a test framework that allows you to securely test changes to GPOs in the lab before implementing into production.
  • Users' Rating: 3.67 [3 votes] - Vote
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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator Listing updated: June 19, 2006

NetIQ Group Policy Administrator is a solution for planning, controlling, troubleshooting and reporting on Group Policy changes. .

Key Features and Benefits: Offers secure offline repository by reducing the number of privileged accounts, offering secure offline Group Policy management without having to provide permissions within Active Directory; Provides workflow and delegation model by allowing you to push the administration of Active Directory lower in the organization to safely involve all Group Policy stakeholders; Reduces error risk when configuring GPOs by enabling you to configure settings once, and then replicate and apply those settings to GPOs in other domains and even other forests. This feature guarantees that your settings are configured correctly and reduces the risk of accidentally misconfiguring or losing a setting; Provides analysis and simulates the effect of modifying the Group Policy environment using online Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) without having to first deploy the modified GPO.
  • Users' Rating: 4 [4 votes] - Vote
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Special Operations Suite Listing updated: June 19, 2006

Special Operations Suite is an Active Directory integrated Desktop Management product used to manage both desktops and servers in companies ranging from enterprises to smaller organizations. Special Operations Suite consists of several different managers that complement each other. Together they deliver a great set of funtionality.

GPO Manager: Special Operations Suite shows all GPOs that are applied to the object and you can immediately access the GPO and make any changes necessary to resolve the issue. Using OLAP Services you can also view all objects that have been affected by a certain GPO.

The Suite also includes an Inventory Manager, Message Manager, Software Manager, OS-Manager, and EventLog Manager.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.18 [11 votes] - Vote
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