Softerra Adaxes is an efficient and flexible Active Directory management solution that facilitates, automates and secures Active Directory management, maintenance and administration.
Softerra Adaxes guarantees high-performance user lifecycle management achieved with cross-domain Active Directory management facilities, granularly distributed role-based security, streamline user provisioning, administrative tasks automation, and approval based workflow.
Centralizing AD management, Softerra Adaxes ensures controlled access to Active Directory resources not only from any web-browser, but also from a convenient windows-based admin console. With Softerra Adaxes, you can now modify your own account information and perform numerous Active Directory management tasks with just one solution!

Directory Management:
· Softerra Adaxes facilitates AD management and reduces administrative workload enabling cross-domain management and furnishing extended capabilities for management of AD objects via the easy-to-use Web Interface and the advanced Windows-based administrative environment.
Role-Based Security Administration:
· Role-based administrative model enables administrators to efficiently distribute permissions by assigning specific Security Roles to AD users.
Business Rules:
· With the help of Business Rules, administrators can automate their routine day-to-day tasks.
Property Patterns:
· Property Patterns help to avoid repetitive entering of the same information and to observe multiple enterprise standards when creating or modifying Active Directory objects.
Business Units:
· Business Units are used to organize AD objects in an alternative way in order to manage them collectively.
Active Directory Reports:
· AD reports allow analyzing and monitoring the state of the Active Directory environment.
Approval Requests:
· Approval-based model enables administrators to define operations that should be executed only after their execution is approved by a responsible person.
Service Log:
· Administrators and auditors can view who performed what operations, when, on what objects, etc.
Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance:
· It is possible to install several Adaxes services that share their configuration. In this case, Adaxes clients are connected to the nearest available Adaxes service, that ensures fault tolerance and load balancing.
Backup/Restore Service Configuration:
· With the help of a special command-line tool (Softerra.Adaxes.BackupRestore.exe), the configuration of any Adaxes service can be backed up and restored.
Adaxes ADSI Provider:
· Using the Adaxes ADSI Provider users can implement the functionality that corresponds to the specific needs of their company.
Adaxes Service Management:
· Using the Adaxes Administration Console, administrators can easily manage the Adaxes services and their configuration.

Requirements:
· .NET Framework
· RAM: 256 MB or more recommended
· HDD: 512 MB
· Super VGA (800x600) or higher resolution monitor
· CPU: 1.6 GHz or higher recommended
· The target computer must be joined to an Active Directory domain

What's New in This Release:
SPML Support:
· SPML protocol is emerging as a de-facto standard in the provisioning industry. The support of this modern standard provides an easier integration of Softerra Adaxes in organizations and streamlines the automation of provisioning processes. Softerra Adaxes includes Adaxes SPML Provider that allows SPML-enabled services to access Active Directory resources. The application can be also configured to send SPML requests to the registered SPML services when certain operations are performed in Active Directory.
Adaxes SPML Provider:
· Adaxes SPML Provider is a Web service running by IIS that enables applications to exchange data with Active Directory via the SPML v2.0 protocol. As an example, when a new employee is hired, there is a need to create multiple user accounts in various applications and services, including Active Directory. During the creation of an account, an SPML-enabled application can automatically send an SPML request to the Adaxes SPML Provider to create ...