Active Directory Change Tracker2.6

Active Directory Change Tracker is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you monitor, analyze and report the changes made to your Active Directory configuration.

Configuration wizard

The utility employs a wizard that offers a step-by-step approach throughout the entire setup process. You can track changes to different domains by specifying the domain and domain controller.In addition, you may enter the authentication parameters used to connect to the target PC, and track GPO (Group Policy Object) changes. The changes are monitored for each domain separately and you may add as many domains as you want.You can enter an SQL server and choose between two authentication modes, namely Windows users currently logged on or SQL username and password.

Tracking options

Active Directory Change Tracker lets you track all changes (like addition or deletion of objects, modification of properties) made to Active Directory immediately or schedule the task. Reports can be exported to HTML, CSV or XLSX file format or sent via email.You can generated AD or GPO reports, search for specific changes and apply different criteria (domain, date range, added, modified or delete changes), clean up past changes and their related data from the database, and delete past events.Other setup parameters give you the freedom to select the list of objects in Active Directory for which you want to track the changes and choose the list of properties in Active Directory for which you need to exclude audit data collection.

Alerts, service controller and event reports

The utility includes in the installation package an additional program, called ADCT Listener Service, which allows you to enable email alerts and add, edit, delete and view properties of a specific event ID.You may view the subscription status of domain controllers, report event data for AD object changes, user logon/logoff activities, password changing options and terminal service activities based on specific event ID in the security event log of the domain controller, as well as export reports to HTML, CSV or XLSX file format.

An overall efficient utility

All in all, Active Directory Change Tracker proves to be a reliable and professional utility that comes with a decent feature pack for helping you monitor Active Directory configuration.