ManageEngine announced automated Google Apps provisioning for ADManager Plus, its Active Directory management and reporting software.
"As more of our customers are embracing hybrid environments, we're enhancing ADManager Plus to meet the demands of managing both on-premise and cloud technologies," said Manikandan Thangaraj, director of product management, ManageEngine. "Only a couple of months ago, we introduced automatic Office 365 provisioning. Now, we've added Google Apps account provisioning. By extending ADManager Plus to include cloud identity management, we help non-technical staff carry out tasks such as user provisioning without knowing the nitty-gritty details of the cloud or on-premise technologies being provisioned."
To standardize and simplify user onboarding and other AD-related activities, ManageEngine has upgraded the latest version of ADManager Plus with the following new features:
- Automated Google Apps Provisioning: When administrators create users’ Active Directory accounts using ADManager Plus, it automatically provisions those accounts with Google Apps user accounts as well. This eliminates the inconsistencies and delays usually associated with a decoupled provisioning system in multi-directory environments, especially when the directory sync fails. Further, this automation provides organizations ample opportunity to safely hand over user onboarding processes to HR and other non-IT staff members.
- Office 365 Reports: To help administrators manage their Office 365 tenants and licenses effectively, ADManager Plus offers information that was previously available only via PowerShell scripting. Now, information about available security and distribution groups, proxy addresses of those groups, and last directory synchronization time is readily available in ADManager Plus reports. License usage details are presented in a unified view and format, which provides administrators a clear idea of how to manage the licenses or service assignment.
- BitLocker Recovery Password and Key Package Retriever: For organizations that have deployed BitLocker Drive Encryptionand chosen to back up the BitLocker recovery data to Active Directory, this report retrieves (from Active Directory) the GUIDs of the encrypted drives and their corresponding recovery passwords. In turn, an administrator can use the passwords to restore access to a drive that fails to decrypt normally. Additionally, the report also provides the BitLocker recovery key package in a downloadable format, which can be used to recover data from a corrupted or damaged BitLocker-protected drive. These provisions save administrators the effort of having to write a script to retrieve the BitLocker recovery data from Active Directory.
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