Microsoft Active Directory Reviews

Active Directory provides centralized identity and access management, and it integrates well with many Microsoft products, which are very prevalent. We have end-user systems like Windows 10 or 11, SharePoint, and the mailing solution Exchange or maybe Office 365. It works well with all these things, and that's the reason we have chosen Active Directory.

One valuable feature is the centralized creation of IDs. Another is the creation of groups, which helps us to compartmentalize access or controls. Additionally, the delegation capability allows us to limit access for managing the Directory. This is really time-saving since I don't need to create users in each server or system manually, and user access control is streamlined. Permissions can be granted to a group or specific folder with one or two clicks in Active Directory, avoiding the need to add groups or people individually.

Our company is one of Australia's largest virtual IT groups with more than 120 users and 15 managers. 

We use the solution as an on-premises domain controller for our customers under various environments. 

Some customers have on-premises servers and domain controllers so the solution is installed and managed locally. 

Other customers have on-premises servers but want to migrate their mail server to Office 365 so we pair the solution with Azure AD's cloud service to create a hybrid model. The same passwords can be used for the solution and Azure AD by syncing them together through a password writeback process in Azure AD Connect. 

A third group of customers work only with Office 365 in cloud environments so we deploy only Azure AD for those use cases. 

The Solution's most important feature is that it can merge with a cloud-based active directory via Azure AD Connect. Managing active directories that are stored in two different places is a nightmare for network administrators and users, so this is an important feature. 

The solution supports and can integrate with both on-premises and cloud-based third-party applications such as Azure VPN, P2S, Intune, and MDM. Pairing with Azure AD to accomplish this is a unique feature.  

Microsoft Active Directory is an authentication infrastructure.

The most valuable feature of the solution is authentication.

We use it to manage the users to start with and to add on security and networks. Whatnot, you can do is authentication, multifactor authentication, enabling user access externally is also possible. We also use it for federation service. So far, we are using all the features of AD. 

We are using most of the features because we are a large organization. So we need those kinds of services or features coming for enterprise versions, and we use most of it because we are 20,000+ people.

We use Microsoft Active Directory as an identity provider. Active Directory checks users and accounts.

It is extremely easy to use compared to the other identity providers. It also allows us to have group policies for all sorts of authentication. It also supports Cisco's 802.1X authentication. Moreover, it’s easy to integrate with any kind of product that will support Active Directory authentication.

We use the solution to control environments for different servers.

The solution's most valuable feature is access control and integration with different applications.

We use the solution for Wi-Fi and logging in students and staff on the network.

It's quite easy to integrate into other directories. It allows us to avoid creating other databases. We just replicate the SAM database into other applications requiring users to log in.

Active Directory has been a valuable tool throughout my career in IT. We have not found anything that can compete with it in terms of functionality or solutions. With Active Directory, we can manage users, groups, and machines, add domains and forests and create trust relationships between domains. This is just a small sampling of what Active Directory can do. Windows Server is a great platform on which Active Directory is built.

The solution helped us create and modify objects for each user in our environment. We gave them the delegation and permission they needed based on their function. It was very helpful, especially in managing these users on each site. We were able to implement domain controllers as a primary and additional domain controller as a redundancy for each other. We were also able to create users and additional UUs. It depends on the departments, the business need, and the group policies that we are going to apply.