Information Technology (IT)
There are a number of so-called "free tools", such as Group Policy and scripts, at your disposal. The problem with free things is that you usually end up paying for them. For example, have you ever run a script against 5,000 computers only to have number 1,941 fail and bring the whole script to a screeching halt? Have you ever run a script against 5,000 systems only to find out that something was failing but you had no idea what because there is no documentation? Group Policy also has its issues. For example, has Group Policy ever failed to apply your settings only to generate an error that says "."? Have you ever set a script to run via Group Policy only to find out that the machines were not rebooted on time and that was the reason you got the Zotob virus?
User Manager Pro addresses all of these issues and more. User Manager Pro is a multi-threaded tool. This means that if any system(s) should fail during its operation, the failure will not affect the running of the product or that job. If any system(s) should fail, User Manager Pro will tell you the reason why (error 53, network path not found) and allow you to retry the operation on those systems which failed. User Manager Pro is also an active management solution that relies on Windows components found in every base installation of the operating system. When you need to schedule and force a reboot, User Manager Pro can do it and log the result. If the operation wasn't successful, it can tell you why. User Manager Pro can also force those updates to the required systems at any time, meaning you don't have to wait for them to reboot to secure your network.
User Manager Pro can do much more. It can manage users, passwords, groups, group memberships, registry, patches, reboots, auditing, rights, and reporting. Finally, the User Manager Pro Suite includes comprehensive reporting that can show you all aspects of any portion of your system - from users to groups to shares to NTFS security permissions to files to WMI and more. All of this functionality is included in User Manager Pro Suite, and done without the use of agents.
Auditors
One thing auditors need is information, lots of it, and they need it immediately. User Manager Pro includes a complete reporting suite that will allow you to report on any aspect of your Windows systems. Some of the most praised reports are the Group Memberships reports - you need to know who is a member of the administrators group on every system; Users report - you need to find and disable all accounts whose passwords are more than 90 days old; and the add-on NTFS Permissions Reporting - you need to know everywhere that the EVERYONE group is granted permissions.
Auditors require anytime, anywhere access to this information. With the add-on Web Reporting, the reports you run or schedule can be accessed in a fully audited and delegated web interface. This allows your auditors to view the reports any time, anywhere and to filter the information that they desire.
Finally, auditors require remediation of the problems they find. User Manager Pro reports are interactive. Almost every report can also perform a management action. For example, if you run a Users report to find those users whose passwords are 90 days or older, you can disable those accounts directly.
