Product Description: GPOVault Enterprise is an add-in to Microsoft’s Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) product, the primary tool for managing Group Policy on Active Directory networks. GPOVault integrates several new management capabilities into GPMC, including change control, offline editing, difference reporting, granular role-based delegation and lifecycle management for Group Policy Objects (GPOs). In addition to aiding management, the audit trail created by GPOVault helps organizations produce reports of security changes for regulatory compliance mandates. The innovative GPOVault technology provides a best-of-breed solution for controlling a simple or complex Group Policy enterprise of any size.
Performance: GPOVault Enterprise can archive 1000 typical live GPOs in approximately 4 hours, 3 times faster than competing products.
GPOVault is the only GPO management tool that integrates directly into the Microsoft native Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
The product leverages the supported Microsoft’s GPMC interfaces for GPO management, unlike older products that predate GPMC, and therefore supports native Group Policy extensions, PolicyMaker extensions, and third party extensions – the only Group Policy management product with this level of integration with the native system.
Key Features & Benefits:
Leverage investments in Microsoft Active Directory to better manage standardization, security and compliance
Manage the lifecycle of Group Policy by controlling, standardizing and auditing the creation, deployment and destruction of GPOs
Reduce the risk of widespread failures resulting from improperly planned or poorly understood application of potentially crippling policy settings with offline editing, difference reporting and change control
Implement role-based administration with common roles such as editor, reviewer and approver
Ensure that policy work flow proceeds efficiently with email notifications and change request approvals
Always know what has changed in their Group Policy environment by leveraging historical difference reporting and audit logging
Recover a deleted GPO using the recycle bin, minimizing lost time that may result from an inadvertent action
Repair a live GPO that may have become corrupted due to problems such as file system or active directory synchronization failure
Quickly rollback deployed changes to a prior state, for individual or multiple GPOs, to a version, label, or time stamp
Create a GPO template library to manage the creation of new GPOs for common scenarios
Leverage GPMC investments as there is no new console to learn
Highlights: DesktopStandard recognizes the GPMC from Microsoft as a revolutionary tool for Group Policy Management. Unfortunately, when any work is done from within the GPMC, it modifies live production GPOs, their settings and does not provide a reportable audit trail. This causes some difficult situations when a small configuration is made, without any room for reviewing the settings or testing the settings before sending the changes to the production environment. GPOVault addresses and provides a solution for these critical feature gaps in GPMC. GPOVault allows an organization to leverage their existing investment in Microsoft Active Directory and to effectively control, standardize and audit the creation, deployment and destruction of GPOs.
End-Users: While GPOVault provides benefits to any organization using Microsoft’s Group Policy, it is especially beneficial to organizations with stringent regulatory compliance and security requirements. Customers tend to be mid-market or large enterprises and come from all industries. Customers range in size from 25 users to over 100,000 users. The primary end-users within these organizations are the Chief Security Officers and their senior security personnel. Reports produced by the system may be consumed by CSOs or business counterparts, such as CIOs.
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