Policy management has become a key requirement for organizations looking to have a high degree of control and consistency over the settings for systems, devices and users within their IT environments. With Group Policy regulating everything from critical business processes and security settings to individual workstations and printers, managing and applying consistent Group Policy Objects (GPO) has become a critical component of customer infrastructure management for most IT service providers.
Managing a customer’s Active Directory is routine for most service providers. N-ables Policy Manager Product line simplifies the process. The IT service provider can quickly assess their customers Group Policy Objects (GPO) environment and align them with their own best practices and apply consistent group polices across multiple workstations and servers. Enabling them to manage, consolidate and automate group polices, saving time and eliminating costly configuration errors.
The N-able Policy Manager is a complete set of Group Policy monitoring and management tools that is comprised of:
- Policy Manager | GPO Enforcer is a GUI-based utility designed to simplify desktop/server configuration and lockdown of Windows desktops and servers. GPO Enforcer enables you as an IT service provider to reduce the complexity of managing and deploying Group Policy, maintain control over the devices you manage and contain the costs of IT support.
- Policy Manager | GPO Compare provides a quick and easy GUI-based way to spot differences in GPO settings across two GPOs. Whether it’s identifying security policy inconsistencies or tracking down potential conflicts in GPOs, GPO Compare is the best tool for tracking down GPO differences.
- Policy Manager | GPO Exporter enables you quickly document your Group Policy Environment. Whether you are trying to discover an existing environment, find overlapping or redundant settings to prepare for a GPO cleanup, or just need to know where a particular setting is coming from, GPO Exporter makes the job easy.
As an IT service provider you understand the importance of applying the correct Group Policies to your customer's infrastructure. Until now, comparing GPO settings has been a tedious, manual process taking up valuable technician time. N-able’s Policy Manager suite of products are designed to reduce the complexity of managing and deploying Group Policy to make it an accessible and valuable capability, and to ease the learning curve and reduce the overhead of Group Policy management.
Policy Manager | GPO Enforcer
Policy Manager | GPO Enforcer is a GUI-based utility designed to simplify desktop/server configuration and lockdown of Windows desktops and servers. GPO Enforcer enables you as an IT service provider to reduce the complexity of managing and deploying Group Policy, maintain control over the devices you manage and contain the costs of IT support.
- Allows you to quickly and easily manage desktop configuration for multiple devices using Group Policy Object Profiles
- Pre-defined templates simplifies the creation of Profiles plus you can edit Profiles to suit your particular needs
- Easily manage the large number of settings and configuration options that are available to the Windows administrator
- Approval-based workflow allows you to divide the task of defining configuration profiles from the task of implementing them
- GPO Enforcer simplifies the process of targeting configuration settings to the appropriate computer or user groups or Organizational Units
Policy Manager | GPO Compare
Policy Manager | GPO Compare provides a quick and easy GUI-based way to spot differences in GPO settings across two GPOs. Whether it’s identifying security policy inconsistencies or tracking down potential conflicts in GPOs, GPO Compare is the best tool for tracking down GPO differences.
- Ability to quickly compare settings between live and/or backup GPOs in the same or different domains/forests.
- Color-coded highlighting of GPO differences
- Ability to search for keywords within difference reports
- Export differences to CSV or clipboard for quick documentation
- Output difference reports to printer, Excel or PDF
- PowerShell interface allows you to perform GPO comparisons from the command-line for quick bulk operations
- Support for all settings in Windows 7 and Server 2008, R2 including GP Preferences
Policy Manager | GPO Exporter
Policy Manager | GPO Exporter lets you document your customers Group Policy Environment. Whether you are trying to discover an existing environment, find overlapping or redundant settings to prepare for a GPO cleanup, or just need to know where a particular setting is coming from, GPO Exporter makes the job easy. Using the PowerShell interface, you can easily script GPO setting discovery based on your needs.
- Ability to quickly report on settings across all GPOs in your environment
- Selectively report on settings by policy area
- Ability to search for keywords within setting lists and sort setting to find redundancies
- Export settings to CSV or clipboard for quick documentation or use with Group Policy Automation Engine as part of a GPO consolidation
- Support for all settings in Windows 7 and Server 2008, R2 including GP references
Hardware
Memory:
Minimum 20MB free RAM
Hard Disk:
Minimum 20MB free disk space
Software
Operating Systems Supported for Installation:
- Microsoft® Windows® 7
- Windows Server 2008-R2
- Microsoft Windows Vista
Additional Requirements:
Microsoft .NET Framework