One Identity Active Roles

One Identity Active Roles  is used primarily to simplify and automate Active Directory user and permission management. The solution automates routine tasks such as account creation, password reset, and permission assignments. It improves security by controlling access and providing auditing capability. A centralized dashboard allows for efficient management of users and permissions from one place.

One Identity Active Roles  automates repetitive tasks that would otherwise require manual effort and time. When onboarding new employees, the tool automatically creates user accounts based on predefined templates. It assigns the correct group membership and permissions according to the employee role without manual intervention. This automation reduces errors and speeds up the processes.

One Identity Active Roles ensures that security policies are consistent across the organization.

One Identity Active Roles offers several valuable features, including a centralized management dashboard that simplifies user and permission administration. Automation of routine tasks such as account creation, password reset, and group membership assignment is a significant feature. Role-based access control and delegation limit permissions and enhance security. The auditing and reporting feature provides detailed information for compliance and tracking changes. Integration with Active Directory and other identity systems is also available.

The automation of routine tasks has the biggest impact on daily work. Automating account creation and password resets saves a significant amount of time and reduces manual effort.

One Identity Active Roles has positively impacted the organization by significantly improving efficiency through automating repetitive tasks and saving time for the IT team. The centralized management dashboard simplifies user and permission administration.

One Identity Active Roles can be improved by simplifying the setup process since a small team in a small business requires implementation without extensive IT support. Additionally, the pricing could be more flexible or tiered to better fit the budget of a smaller organization.

I have used One Identity Active Roles for around one to two months.

One Identity Active Roles is stable.

My rating customer service rating is 5.

Planning carefully for the initial setup is important as it can be complex and time-consuming. Ensure that there is access to expertise in Active Directory. The review rating for One Identity Active Roles is 9.

One Identity Active Roles  is used for provisioning and directory management.

One Identity Active Roles  has excellent delegation of permissions capabilities, allowing me to isolate the help desk team and give them permissions exactly where I need them, easily. I appreciate the automations, where PowerShell scripts can do things on behalf of other staff that I do not want to give permissions to. Two-factor authentication helps ensure that people who perform actions in Active Directory have two-factor authentication enabled.

One Identity Active Roles helps by automating tasks through scripts instead of manually running scripts or doing certain things manually, allowing people with fewer privileges to run those automations instead of burdening system admins.

One Identity Active Roles has benefited my security posture by helping reduce internal exposures of permissions and by facilitating two-factor authentication for Active Directory.

One Identity Active Roles supports my provisioning and de-provisioning needs very well. It has helped increase operational efficiency by saving a lot of time and has helped reduce the number of privileged accounts.

I evaluate the ease of managing on-premises and cloud-based identity directories through a single pane of glass as fairly easy, with a learning curve that makes it very easy to maintain once you become familiar with it.

Integration capabilities are somewhere in the middle; it is not easy to integrate, but it is not the hardest thing out there.

Certain automations, possibly web apps, could be improved or simplified to make them easier. These automations are what I think could be improved.

I do not use the comprehensive group membership management feature and have not utilized the fine-grained permission control feature deeply. The process of streamlining directory security for on-premises and cloud-based directories is not particularly applicable to my organization.

I have been using One Identity Active Roles for about three years.

One Identity Active Roles has very few bugs and is actually very stable, so I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.

I am not certain if One Identity Active Roles is a scalable solution for us since we have local deployment and approximately 50 users, and scalability is not really relevant to our situation.

I rate the vendor's technical support a ten out of ten.

We tried other solutions years ago, but I cannot compare them because I do not remember the details. Upper management tried something like SailPoint, Amada, or Symantec a while ago, but that was not me and those individuals are no longer with the company.

The deployment of One Identity Active Roles probably took weeks, though it depends on what is meant by deployment.

One Identity Active Roles was purchased through a partner.

I am aware of the pricing; it is on the expensive side, though pricing is not my department.

One Identity Active Roles is not a scalable solution for our organization since we have local deployment and approximately 50 users, and scalability is not really relevant to us. It is not a global solution; it is not worldwide.

The process of streamlining directory security for on-premises and cloud-based directories is not particularly applicable to my situation. Approximately 50 users use the solution.

I would say One Identity Active Roles has reduced privileged accounts by about 30 percent. To my knowledge, it has not helped reduce identity-based breaches.

I assess the visibility that One Identity Active Roles provides into my directory ecosystem as excellent. I would rate the granular control of One Identity Active Roles as a ten out of ten.

I would recommend this product, but it depends on exactly what you are trying to achieve; conducting a proof of concept about what you would like to see is vital. It is very difficult to answer in a review because it depends on the pain points of the customer and what they are trying to accomplish. Overall, I would recommend it and I am satisfied with the product.

The vendor may reach out if they have any questions or comments about my review. My overall review rating for One Identity Active Roles is nine out of ten.

My main use case for One Identity Active Roles  is managing Active Directory.

I use One Identity Active Roles  to manage Active Directory by adding users to groups. When I'm adding users to groups with One Identity Active Roles, we sometimes do it manually, and sometimes we automate depending on the task. There are some automations in place for simple tasks such as adding people to distribution groups, but for more complex and sensitive tasks, they are done manually where a ticket comes in ServiceNow , and then we respond to that ticket manually by adding the people and then approving it.

I think the best feature One Identity Active Roles offers is probably the automation capability, although we do not utilize it to its fullest extent.

Since automation is a highlight for me, what I like about the automation in One Identity Active Roles is the time savings.

One Identity Active Roles has positively impacted my organization by providing a consistent and easy to understand interface for Active Directory, whether you are reading it or whether you are actively managing Active Directory.

One Identity Active Roles can be improved by updating the interface as it seems to have been static for quite some time, and I feel there could certainly be improvements made. Similarly, with the automation, I feel an updated user interface would make it slightly easier to use and understand for people who are not necessarily familiar with things such as the Active Directory Users and Computers interface.

Modernization is needed for those improvements.

I personally have been using One Identity Active Roles for four years, and my company has been using it for longer, probably six to eight years.

One Identity Active Roles is very stable and we never have any issues with it.

One Identity Active Roles has scaled well with us and we are not the biggest organization, but we have never had issues with scaling it.

Customer support for One Identity Active Roles is good and we have never had to raise an issue with customer support because it is a very stable product.

I did not previously use a different solution as I was not here when we may have used a previous solution, but I think we have always had One Identity Active Roles, as it has been here for over eight years.

I have not seen a return on investment or any relevant metrics and I cannot imagine we would have saved any employees or any full-time equivalents for One Identity Active Roles.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for One Identity Active Roles is that they are all very reasonable.

Before choosing One Identity Active Roles, my team did not evaluate other options because I was not here when the team chose it as it was so long ago.

The advice I would give to others looking into using One Identity Active Roles is to be already familiar with Active Directory Users and Computers if possible, and dive into the automation as much as possible when you first receive it without hesitation to test it.

One Identity Active Roles is a very stable product and we would not consider getting rid of it, or at least a product of this sort, as there is definitely a need for it. I would say that as we migrate further into the cloud, there will probably be less of a need for it, but certainly for on-premises Active Directory, it is very important to us. I gave this review a rating of six.

My main use case for One Identity Active Roles  is delegations and limiting access based on least privilege principles.

A specific example of how I use delegations and least-based access in my environment is that for cases where people only need a password reset, I can grant that capability without granting the ability to unlock accounts, or I can grant the ability to unlock without granting people password reset permissions.

The best features One Identity Active Roles  offers are that it can be used across multiple domains and forests.

In our company, we have 85 different domains, and it would be cumbersome to have a separate instance of One Identity Active Roles for each domain. One Identity Active Roles allows us to give people in one domain access through One Identity Active Roles to all these other domains without them needing an account in each of those other domains, even though there does not have to be a trust between those domains.

One Identity Active Roles has positively impacted my organization by helping speed up delegations and helping us find permissions and generate reports more quickly on who has what access where.

One Identity Active Roles takes us less time, probably half the time, to complete delegations that are very granular and complex, compared to having to use native tools and scripts.

One Identity Active Roles can be improved because schemas sometimes differ between domains, and One Identity Active Roles does not behave very well with that inconsistency. We have an open case with Quest on this issue, but so far they do not have a solution for it.

I would also like to request that their support be more detailed, as we are finding difficulties getting to the correct people.

I give it an eight mainly because if we have to undo it for a divestiture, it is very difficult to strip off just the permissions easily because they are done via domain groups. We have to go back and find them all and remove them individually, so there should be an easier way to do that.

I have been using One Identity Active Roles for six years.

One Identity Active Roles can be buggy at times, and we have to restart the server.

One Identity Active Roles can handle growth in my environment, but the downside is that when we have domains that are further away from the server, it takes longer to bring up the console.

I am not really satisfied with the customer support for One Identity Active Roles as the support is pretty limited.

We do run into challenges with managing upgrades and patches for One Identity Active Roles, but we have a test instance that we try to do it on first.

My advice to others looking into using One Identity Active Roles is to plan out in advance and think about the big picture before you dive in. I give One Identity Active Roles an overall rating of eight out of ten.

One Identity Active Roles  is used for delegated access. It helps with RBAC controls and allows us to manipulate across our facilities which OUs in Active Directory they can manage, along with dynamic groups and keeping the ability where folks don't have to use ADUC and they can just use a delegated management overlay tool to not delete groups and not delete OUs and not inappropriately move objects across containers.

Regarding the ease or difficulty of managing on-premises and cloud-based identity directories through a single pane of glass, we leverage One Identity Active Roles  from strictly the on-premises space. Being able to leverage it from a delegated access perspective, the console itself is very clean. It looks very similar to Active Directory Users and Computers, which legacy, long-time IT people are used to. So that outline from a UI perspective makes things seamless. People don't even know that One Identity Active Roles is actually a product and not just a built-in native solution for Windows, which is very key for us.

Regarding One Identity Active Roles' ability to provision and de-provision resources in directories such as AD and Azure AD , it is very seamless. From a permission standpoint, it is a right-click de-provision user and having that recycle bin to quickly uncover or recover is very useful. It is very seamless. It is not the best from a change history standpoint as far as quantifying those logs, but it is nice to see that this object was de-provisioned on X day by a user, and it can quickly be restored in the event that was a mistake.

About group membership management in One Identity Active Roles, I have already discussed how you can delegate groups with OUs and naming conventions through the complex IT teams that we have in our organization. From a group membership standpoint, we can manage groups and delegate that access across the organization from our enterprise service level that can do password resets versus our identity engineering team who has full domain admin in the console that can manipulate those access templates and make adjustments accordingly.

The favorite feature of One Identity Active Roles is definitely the granularity and specifics on the access templates. You can dive deep into controls all the way down to manage individual objects, all the way from not just at the OU level, but how granular delegated access is with One Identity Active Roles is definitely the most useful feature to my organization.

One Identity Active Roles absolutely helps reduce identity-based breaches. It is from an identity governance perspective, being able to ensure that folks that are in specific positions have the least privileged access possible. One Identity Active Roles makes that very seamless for our user base. We are a for-profit healthcare conglomerate with thirty states, over fifty community hospitals across that are all in a single pane of glass under our LifePoint Health Active Directory domain. Being able to say that your facility can only manage these objects in this OU and delegating that from their core IT engineering staff versus their help desk versus an application owner makes it all very seamless.

One Identity Active Roles has absolutely helped our organization reduce its number of erroneous privileged accounts. We can quickly evaluate those accounts. You can see the same features within ADUC, but you can quickly isolate those and validate where they are and adjust them however you want.

One of the things I would like to see more robust is the change history. One Identity Active Roles can only monitor changes that happen in the console, and the logs don't go back longer than thirty days, maybe sixty days. The change history, when we've seen accounts get modified, we leverage a container domain that funnels accounts into our Active Directory console. I would like to see from an initial user provisioning perspective, for them to isolate the workflow and say that this came in on X date and account was created. If anyone were to modify that account from an external resource, I would like to be able to read that as well. One Identity Active Roles is strictly limited to the console. If someone makes a change, the history of those changes is not as long as I would prefer.

Our company has used One Identity Active Roles for over five years. I have been with them for the last four years. Personally, I have been a user and managed the team that controls One Identity Active Roles for four years.

Regarding stability, One Identity Active Roles is mostly stable. The only times it is not is when we have the eight-point-zero long-term service release. I have not seen any sort of hiccups in connectivity. If anything, it is on our side from a networking standpoint. It is a very stable product, at least recently.

One Identity Active Roles is more beneficial to a large corporation. I am sure that licensing can vary in cost, but it is definitely very beneficial to complex Active Directory environments from a control perspective and being able to grant least privileged access that folks need to do their job.

We don't get a lot of communication from the One Identity side. I don't know who our account representative is, and that is kind of not good since we have had some turnover there.

I have not used any alternatives to One Identity Active Roles. From an on-premises AD standpoint, delegated access has been with LifePoint as long as in my career. That is what we have leveraged. It has been useful. We have rolled it out across several Active Directory domains as our management overlay, but that has been our main one.

When I first started using One Identity Active Roles, it is intuitive. It is not super complex. The management of it, we used it from a user provisioning standpoint before we switched human capital management systems. I was not really involved in that, but from an end user standpoint, you pick your web database server. The thick client is much easier from a UI perspective looking through it because it looks very similar to ADUC if you have any experience in IT. The web portal is fine. I think it is a little more clunky, and that is what most folks use, but it is intuitive. You pick your web or database server, log in with your credentialed account, and it synchronizes and loads. It is seamless, and from an intuitive standpoint, it is on the higher end.

Regarding the pricing of One Identity Active Roles, it is definitely on the expensive side compared to solutions for what it does. It is a necessary need for us. I don't know One Identity Active Roles' business model, but it is very niche in the sense that they are going to target complex environments like mine that have a need for delegated access. There are other IGA  platforms that do delegated access and offer a much larger suite of solutions, but it is definitely on the expensive side. I think our total was in the seven-figure range for a couple of years of service.

Overall, I would give One Identity Active Roles a rating of nine out of ten. The main pain point I have is not huge because I know there are AD audit solutions out there individually. But with the control that One Identity Active Roles has, being as intuitive as it is, I think it is a nine out of ten. I would recommend it to any healthcare conglomerate that has multiple hands in an Active Directory environment. There are many components that I think our team is not touching the surface on from a dynamic group perspective, and we just use it for what it is today, but I think there are more components that we could explore.