What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Active Directory?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a four out of ten.

Microsoft Active Directory is not an expensive solution. You have to buy the Windows OS licenses, but you don't have to pay any additional product licenses for Active Directory.

As per the market standard, I would want the current prices of the product to remain the same.

My company makes payments every quarter towards the licensing costs of the product. I feel Microsoft Active Directory is an affordable product.

It's not overly expensive. It's considered a base function by Microsoft. We're required to pay for the license, which is based on the frequency of service usage. It's on a yearly basis.

Active Directory is an expensive solution, primarily due to Microsoft's licensing model. This licensing approach includes paying for server licenses as well as for each computer that connects to it. However, when working with the Azure cloud, there is no cost for the server. This is profitable and one of the main reasons why Azure Cloud and other cloud-based solutions are being used more.

The license per user can probably be reduced. However, the server license is okay. The license fee is paid based on the new release of Windows Server.

The pricing is not very expensive. I rate the pricing a five out of ten.

We have to purchase a license for the solution.

I pay a monthly license.

It requires a license but the product is bundled in with other functions, so it doesn't have a separate cost. There's a fixed price per user for the suite.

The solution's price is reasonable.

The price of Microsoft Active Directory could improve. We pay annually for the solution. I rate the price of Microsoft Active Directory a seven out of ten.

We pay for a yearly license per user for the Microsoft operating system and Office plus costs for other products like Kaspersky antivirus.

Active Directory is built-in into Microsoft Windows 10. I'm not an administrator and would not be involved in purchasing decisions for new versions of the software. I have only used the client portion of it, I do not know if there is a cost to using the solution.

The version of Microsoft Active Directory I was using was expensive because it was used for large companies.

The license is perpetual and the cost is minimal. If you purchase Microsoft Windows then Microsoft Active Directory comes with the package.

For the educational sector, we are getting free licenses from Microsoft because it comes in the HEC program for the Pakistani Government and Higher Education Commission. So we get licenses from the HEC and don't pay any license fees for Microsoft products.

The solution is based on a licensing model. Some users of Office 365 are provided with a free license. Our company uses P1 and P2 licenses. Cost considerations should also include the value of company infrastructure and data. Cost is calculated per user but that does not matter if the alternative is to lose your data because of authentication issues. The priority should be securing your data. Less users means less cost but large-scale operations with 2,000 users clearly have important data within their organization and need to protect it.