There are many ways to monitor Active Directory activities in an infastrcure. Some tools are just to monitor the AD services and some tools are to monitor services as well as the activities. Service level monitoring is the easy part and any monitoring tool with windows service monitoring can monitor the status of the AD services. Tools likes SCOM allows to monitor services in more granular level.
In an active directory environment some time you need to apply same set of changes to group of users. For example let’s assume company domain prefix changed. You need to change UPN prefix for all users from abc.com to xyz.com. If you do one at a time how long it will take? If it large environment how much man power it will take and how much mistakes can happen?
Well, using active directory…
