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Active Directory Management Change Management Endpoint Security Password Management User Provisioning Virtualization Management White Papers ![]() Testimonial: Group Policy doesn't include any built-in workflow features that assist with alerting administrators when things change. Until now. NetWrix announced a new tool called Group Policy Change Reporter that assists in doing just this. /Greg Shields, Directory Sevices MVP/ |
Group Policy Change Reporter (Freeware and Commercial)Group Policy auditing is a must have procedure for all organizations relying on Group Policy infrastructure. Relatively small changes to security policies, desktop configurations, software deployment and other settings can severly impact enterprise security, compliance, and performance. Built-in Group Policy management tools don't have any auditing and change reporting capabilities and you just can't track who, what and when data for critial modifications. The uncontrolled and unaudited change process imposes major security and compliance risks for an IT infrastructure run by multiple IT professionals. NetWrix Group Policy Change Reporter makes Group Policy change auditing task very easy and straightforward. This FREE product sends daily reports detailing every single change made to Group Policy configuration. 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 and When information for all changes with previous and current values for all modified settings (*). Reports can be used to:
The product records all Group Policy modifications and archives them to enable historical reporting (*). You can build summary of changes made to Group Policy during any period, to analyze any policy violations that took place in the past. For example, you can see who turned off invalid logon auditing in your domain security policy, who added new software to deploy on client computers, who changed desktop firewall and lockdown settings, and many other examples. The product has two editions: Freeware and Commercial.
(*) The commercial version is available. It includes advanced features, such as Who and When fields, long term change archiving, and comes with full-featured technical support: more details. We also provide free of charge technical support for the freeware version on the Support Forum. | ||||||
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