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Group Policy Management

FEATURED: Specops Password Policy Listing updated: January 31, 2011

Since passwords are the primary authentication method in Active Directory, strong password policies are essential for securing access. Specops Password Policy, enforces password complexity rules defined by your organization.

A significant limitation with standard password functionality is that only a single complexity rule can be applied across the entire domain, affecting all user accounts in the same way independent of their security risk factor. Specops Password Policy overcomes this restriction by allowing you to specify multiple password policies based on rules you define. It is based on Group Policy technology, and can be configured in any number of group policies within the Active Directory.

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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!
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NetWrix Group Policy Change Reporter Listing updated: September 2, 2011

Group Policy auditing is a must-have procedure for all organizations relying on Group Policy for infrastructure consistency, security and compliance. Relatively small changes to security policies, desktop configurations, software deployment and other settings can negatively impact enterprise security, compliance directives, and overall performance. Managing uncontrolled and unaudited changes to Group Policy using native tools and event logs is time-consuming, error-prone, and can create major risks for any organization.

NetWrix Group Policy Change Reporter makes Group Policy auditing easy and straightforward. This product sends daily GPO audit reports detailing setting change made to GPO objects thus monitoring GPO in-depth. The reports list newly created and deleted GPOs, GPO link changes, changes made to audit policy, password policy, software deployment, user desktops, and all other settings. The data includes Who, What, When and Where information for all changes including the previous and current values for each modified GPO setting. Group Policy auditing reports are designed to be used for compliance audits, such as SOX, HIPAA, and PCI.

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EmpowerID Group Manager Listing updated: July 29, 2011

Groups are currently the most widely adopted method of managing application and resource security; yet 70% of organizations do not have a reliable group management solution. Gaining control over group membership is an essential step in any enterprise compliance initiative. EmpowerID Group Manager provides organizations with centralized workflow and role-driven automation of the entire group lifecycle management process and enables groups to be a strategic part of any initiative focused on security, centralized authorization or compliance.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.08 [13 votes] - Vote
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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator Listing updated: July 29, 2011

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.

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Active Administrator Listing updated: July 29, 2011

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: 3.89 [18 votes] - Vote
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Specops Active Directory Janitor Listing updated: May 6, 2011

Regular maintenance of your Active Directory is important for many reasons. One must first understand that the Active Directory database exists on each Domain Controller. So if you have many domain controllers, the information in the Active Directory database is replicated between the doamin controllers on preset intervalls.

Two important pieces in the Active Directory database are the User accounts and Computer accounts in your network environment. Information about the users and computers are thus stored in Active Directory and replicated around the network on the Domain Controllers.
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Quest GPOADmin Listing updated: August 17, 2010

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.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.67 [3 votes] - Vote
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Specops Inventory Listing updated: June 2, 2010

Get full IT asset tracking and thus control of all software licenses, hardware information, user profiles and much more in just a few simple steps by using Specops Inventory, an extension to Group Policy. Installation and usage is simple and straightforward, and you will be up and running in hours, not days, weeks or even months - which is the implementation time of competing solutions.

You can now do this and more by using Active Directory and Group Policy, an infrastructure you already own and have invested significant time, money, and resources in building. Specops Inventory is the first Group Policy based inventory solution reporting on all information from your Active Directory computer and user infrastructure, providing detailed asset tracking data for virtually all Windows based hardware and software.
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Specops Virtual Deploy Listing updated: June 2, 2010

Specops Virtual Deploy is new product from Specops Software that makes it possible to take advantage of Microsoft App-V application virtualization directly, using only existing investments in infrastructure and knowledge. This is accomplished by combining the power of Group Policy and Microsoft App-V to make two great stories even better.

With Specops Virtual Deploy, providing Microsoft App-V virtual applications to your clients is just as easy as managing any other type of software package. Specops Virtual Deploy uses the same intuitive interface you find in our award winning Specops Deploy software deployment platform.
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