Audit Policies - Active Directory Management
- Add and Manage Domains
- Configure and Manage Accounts and Audit Policies
- Add and Manage Computers in a Domain
- Add and Manage Users and their Properties
- Create and Manage Groups
- Schedule Tasks
- Manage Printers
- Manage Network Shares
- Manage Events
- Built-in System Tools
- Manage Services and Devices
- Manage Directory Attributes
- Create, Edit, and Execute WMI Queries
- Auditing and Reporting
Configure and Manage Accounts and Audit Policies
Whether an organization is small, medium, or large, configuring and managing users' accounts and audit policies are must from security perspective. Configuring different accounts and audit policies for different level of users based on the stringent organizational terms is a time-consuming yet the most important task for an administrator. The administrator needs to visit every computer in a domain to setup policies and if the organization is large, the task of policies configuration becomes more tiresome for the administrator.
Chily Active Directory Reports software has been designed by experts, to simplify the administrator's task. The software provides its users, a central location to setup policies for all computers (local or remote computers) in a domain. With easy to access and use wizards, configuring policies using Chily Active Directory Reports is just a single step process. The software allows the administrator to perform following accounts policy configuration related tasks without letting him to manually check every computer in a domain:
- Specify the minimum password age
- Specify the maximum password age
- Specify the minimum password length
- Specify whether to keep the password history in Active Directory or not
- Specify that whether the user's account should be locked after a fixed number of bad logon attempts or not
- Specify that whether the user can unlock his/her account by own or not
- Specify that whether the user should be forcibly disconnected from the server after the logon hours are expired or not
Apart from easing the complex, time-consuming, and tiresome accounts policy configuration, Chily Active Directory Management and Reporting has also simplified configuring audit policies. The software enables the administrator to configure settings in Windows operating system to audit following events:
- Logon and Logoff
- File and Object Access
- Use of User Rights
- User and Group Management
- Security Policy Changes
- Restart and Shutdown of System
- Process Tracking
- Privileged Logons
- Directory Service Access
By allowing the administrator to configure accounts and audit policies without visiting every computer within a domain, the Chily Active Directory Management and Reporting saves substantial time of the administrator.