Active Directory Change Reporter

• Read Competitive Comparison to see how NetWrix AD Change Reporter stands out among others.
• White Paper: Auditing Active Directory Changes Efficiently.
• Case Study: Controlling Active Directory in a Complex Multi-Administrator Environment.

Active Directory change auditing is an important procedure for tracking unauthorized changes and errors to AD and Group Policy configurations. One single change can put your organization at risk, introducing security breaches and compliance issues. Built-in Active Directory auditing lacks many important features and doesn't have reporting capabilities. Careful analysis of multi-megabyte Security logs can take enormous resources and still never paint the whole picture. Group Policy change auditing is not available at all.

NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter is a free tool for Active Directory audit reporting that tracks and reports changes made to Active Directory, Group Policy, and Exchange and delivers detailed information on a daily basis. Report include the 4 "W"s - Who, What, When, and Where(*) - for all changes, including "before" and "after" values for each and every setting. This audit report lists changes made to AD and Exchange configurations, Group Policy objects and setting modifications, AD schema (*), and many more.

Generated data can be used to:

• Monitor and audit day-to-day administrative activities - Case Study.
• Prepare compliance reports for your SOX, GLBA and HIPAA auditors - Download report sample.

The Active Directory Change Reporter tracks all changes in Active Directory, including both user and administrative activity, and e-mails daily audit reports to AD administrators detailing every Active Directory and Group Policy change. Collected audit data is archived and can be stored for years (*), so you can build summary of changes made to Active Directory and Group Policy during any period and drill down to detailed information as necessary. This AD audit archiving function allows organizations to analyze any policy violations, adhere to security best practices and maintain established internal policies.

The tool is provided free of charge for use by organizations and individuals. We also provide free of charge technical support for the freeware version on the Support Forum.

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(*) The commercial version is available. It includes advanced features, such as Who and When fields, long term change archiving, schema change detection, and comes with technical support: more details.

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To learn how to configure the product, please refer to the Quick Start Guide:
  Active Directory Change Reporter Quick Start Guide