One Identity Active Roles

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.

I am one of the resellers for One Identity Active Roles , so that is the reason I downloaded it.

One Identity Active Roles  is generally used in complex IT setups where Active Directory plays a critical role and organizations have many compliances and mandates to be followed. For example, in India, we have many banking customers who are governed by the Reserve Bank. In the US, you have the Central Bank or Federal Bank; in India, we have something called a Reserve Bank. All the big financial sectors have to follow the mandates and compliance provided by them. Identity solutions come into that part as well. So to make sure that everybody has the right amount of access and nobody has all access, One Identity Active Roles plays a critical role over there.

In India, this kind of requirement mainly comes from regulated entities or regulated enterprises. So they prefer the on-premises solution for One Identity Active Roles. We have not had a customer in the past who has gone through the cloud solution. They want everything to be hosted on their premises. Since I have not come across the cloud-based installation yet, I cannot comment on that piece, but on-premises is what they look for in the current setup which we provide.

One Identity Active Roles brings significant value through its lifecycle management capabilities, which are very good with no complaints or problems at all.

With the inclusion of One Login, which One Identity acquired three or four years back, One Identity Active Roles has gained complete coverage. Earlier, One Identity lacked an IAM  solution. They always have had the Active Directory management solution in the form of One Identity Active Roles or through the IGA  solution. But with the inclusion of One Login, that has really fulfilled the requirement which customers need from a single vendor. The competition includes SalePoint, Saviynt , and others, including Ping Identity, who is also coming up with an IGA  kind of solution. One Identity has been providing it for a very long time, longer than these competitors who have just started realizing all those things and providing a similar kind of solution to the customer. One Login and One Identity provide complete coverage to the customer, which is really helpful.

One Identity Active Roles brings a positive impact to organizations in that they will start realizing the ROI in a much faster manner because the implementation time is very short and it is easy to use. Additionally, since there are many regulated entities which need this kind of solution and in the market there are very few solution providers who can provide this kind of coverage, that is the advantage which One Identity Active Roles has.

If One Identity Active Roles has to be positioned for all customers, not just the entities which are being regulated, then the pricing has to be normalized. There are many solution providers in the market who can do it at a much lesser price. India is a price-sensitive market, and I can speak only for India; I cannot speak for the other part of the world. We have many local vendors who can provide these kinds of solutions. But since One Identity Active Roles is a much more mature product and has been in the market for a very long time, customers have some respect for that and they can pay the premium. But that premium cannot be three times, two times, or beyond three times. So the pricing has to be normalized based on the market. Every market has its own constraints, so the One Identity team should work on that aspect.

I have been reselling One Identity Active Roles for almost seven to eight years.

I have not had a challenge working with One Identity technical support so far. Everything is good, and I can give One Identity technical support a rating of ten.

I have worked with Microsoft earlier. I started my career with Active Directory, which is the base of providing identity in the older days. Twenty years back, when we talk about identity, it was always Active Directory from Microsoft. So I have worked with them. Now even Microsoft has come up with their own offering called Entra ID, and they are also competing with One Identity or SalePoint in a similar segment.

From the product perspective, deploying One Identity Active Roles is not that much cumbersome or troublesome. It is a very easy deployment. The only thing which we have to generally figure out is the kind of Active Directory infrastructure the customer has, and based on that, we will have to configure the rules or the policies in the tool.

From the product perspective, the installation of One Identity Active Roles will not take much time and the integration with Active Directory itself will not take much time. Installation is hassle-free and not complex at all. The only thing which takes time is the configuration part. When I say configuration, it is mainly from the policies perspective because we have to understand the customer requirement and based on that we have to create all the rules and policies so that we can fulfill all the use cases.

When I say the configuration of One Identity Active Roles, it is basically because of the customer setup and not because of the tool itself. Because you have to create a lot of policies, and those policies need to be created because the customer has that kind of complexity in their setup. Otherwise, this is an easy tool to manage. If the environment is well-configured or well-managed by the customer, then One Identity Active Roles will not take much time.

I do provide deployment for my customers. For deploying One Identity Active Roles, you need one person, and that is more than enough to manage the solution. We have a different team who does the installation of One Identity Active Roles.

One Identity Active Roles has helped my organization increase operational efficiency. Now only the right person has the right access. Not everybody can go and log into Active Directory or the identity management solution which they have directly. One Identity has a theme that they want the right people to have the right set of access, and this is what they are able to provide with their tool.

One Identity Active Roles has helped to reduce the number of erroneous privileged accounts. That is what they want to achieve. When I talk about customers, they do not want any intruders or hackers to get access to their data. This can happen even from a legitimate user if their credentials are compromised. These kinds of solutions always prohibit those kinds of activities by a hacker or a mischievous character in the organization to take advantage of the system.

One Identity Active Roles helps to reduce identity-based breaches.

Right now, a lot of the discussion is centered on agentic AI for One Identity Active Roles. An agentic AI who can do most common tasks on its own would really help.

To be very honest, the ability to provision and de-provision resources in directories needs to be handled by my technical person, since I do not belong to that field.

I feel with the kind of use cases which One Identity Active Roles addresses and the kind of market we play into, then I think nine is a good rating for them. There is always room for improvement, so hence I am not giving it a ten at this time.

I use One Identity Active Roles  primarily for identity management. We use it for managing multiple domains from a single interface, and the domains do not have trust between them. It has been used by multiple support teams, such as the service desk or the identity access management team for account creation, modification, and management of accounts. It is mostly focused on account creation, modification, deletion, and AD objects.

One Identity Active Roles  has helped my organization reduce the number of incorrect privileged accounts through the management unit feature. It helps us identify accounts that are not in use, and while creating admin accounts, we use it to set policies regarding which required fields must be filled during account creation. This helps us keep the process clean and ensures all required attributes are filled before account creation. We have scheduled scripts on One Identity Active Roles that check if activity meets criteria. If it doesn't, it will move the account to a specified OU, disable it, or delete it, as per the defined process.

One Identity Active Roles helps us keep accounts consistent. For instance, when somebody leaves the company, all associated accounts get removed, which helps us eliminate unwanted accounts.

For Active Directory, the provisioning and de-provisioning capabilities work exceptionally. The de-provision feature allows account disconnection without disabling it, enabling quick reconnection with automatic group additions. This feature significantly speeds up the process compared to disabling and re-adding to groups.

The comprehensive group membership management feature is exceptional because it offers two features not available in Active Directory directly: adding multiple secondary owners and dynamic groups. The latter is only available for Azure AD , not for on-premise AD.

Using One Identity Active Roles enables temporary group additions. For instance, if a group provides access, we can temporarily add a member, and when the time period expires, the member gets removed automatically.

The granular control is exceptional; we can give the least control required by the team. For modifying any group, we don't have to give create and delete roles; we can just give them the move role.

The delegation of administrative access impacts IT operations positively through access templates, which are usually created based on the team.

One Identity Active Roles has increased operational efficiency despite occasional slowdowns. Solution consolidation is part of our identity and access management strategy, eliminating the need for direct Active Directory access for the help desk and IAM  team.

The best features of One Identity Active Roles include managing multiple domains from a single interface. I don't need to log into jump servers, making it very easy to log in from the web and manage it. Dynamic groups are also one of the best features, eliminating the need to add or manage members manually. The management unit is another excellent feature, which we can use as a virtual OU to identify missing elements.

The approval process and group approval process can include adding multiple secondary owners.

The interface appears outdated. Once logged in, everything inside remains unchanged from years ago.

Additionally, when they release new features, they should provide training or webinars at least once or twice a year. This would help users stay updated and aware of new features. When I requested a demo session with One Identity, the presenter didn't provide complete details, making it difficult for non-technical managers to understand. The demo should be planned based on the customer's knowledge level.

Regarding visibility in the directory ecosystem, while it is very good, there are limitations. When we add numerous domains, it becomes slow. With around 60 domains, attempting to add approximately 30 caused significant performance issues. We had to remove and decrease the number of domains, indicating room for improvement in managing multiple domains from a single interface.

I have been using One Identity Active Roles for approximately 11 or 12 years.

I would rate the stability as eight out of ten. I have already discovered approximately three defects in the new version.

While One Identity Active Roles has improved operational efficiency, there are occasional challenges with system slowdowns.

The scalability is excellent, rated around nine or ten out of ten. It can be expanded or decreased based on the SQL server requirements.

In our organization, the solution is open to all users with read-only access, with approximately 200 users having admin access.

I would rate their support a nine out of ten.

I've personally deployed systems from scratch, from planning through to completion.

Deployment is not overly complicated. We do need to ensure that the required ports are open and that we have the necessary permissions. However, it does vary from company to company regarding how they manage to get those ports opened and permissions granted. Based on my experience, I would rate the complexity of deployment as about a seven or eight out of ten. In the new version, we did encounter some issues related to system slowness, but other than that, most aspects look good.

The deployment duration depends on your company's processes. If you manage to get the ports opened and the permissions granted quickly, the deployment can be completed in about two months. For us, it took approximately six months because acquiring the necessary permissions and opening the ports took time. Additionally, post-deployment, we needed to conduct some testing as well. So, while I wouldn’t say it takes excessively long, it does depend on your circumstances. If everything is in place, meaning if the ports are open and permissions are set, you could deploy a basic version within two days.

The solution requires regular maintenance, including server patching and routine updates. We monitor alerts and check the website regularly as part of business-as-usual support.

When comparing One Identity Active Roles with other solutions in the market, there are no direct competitors. Having explored alternatives in my previous company, I found it to be more user-friendly and to have more secure features around Active Directory than other available solutions.

Regarding integration, I have not yet integrated One Identity with other One Identity products as this process is ongoing with our recent upgrade. While we have multiple One Identity products, this integration remains a future project.

Regarding lifecycle management capabilities via the workflow engine, we have not fully utilized it because most workplaces have used third-party tools such as Microsoft MIM . At my previous workplace, SailPoint was used for complete account lifecycle management. We primarily used One Identity Active Roles for account management after creation and for modification of admin accounts.

I would recommend One Identity Active Roles based on its ability to manage domains from a single interface and provide minimal-required access based on work requirements. The web interface login and MMC console are very user-friendly.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

The main use case is the Active Directory delegation. We have many different entities within our organization, and we needed to delegate some Active Directory capabilities, such as creating users, updating users, deleting users, groups, and computers.

The access templates help set up granular permissions and the web portal to manage Active Directory. Active Directory is usually managed through a heavy console, and using One Identity Active Roles  allows it to be managed through any internet browser. Additionally, it helps in removing custom Active Directory delegation, which enhances security by eliminating unnecessary privileges, addressing identity-based breaches by reducing the number of Active Directory delegations.

One area for improvement would be the Entra ID side, including better delegation for Entra ID objects and more granular permissions. We would also like to see better Entra ID license management using virtual pool management, given that the current setup is custom-made, and having this feature built-in would be beneficial. The web interface could also be improved, though it's ongoing.

The solution has been in place for the last fifteen to seventeen years, but I have been using it for the last eight years since joining the company.

The stability of One Identity Active Roles  is rated seven. There are performance issues sometimes, but restarting services usually resolves them.

The solution is scalable. It is rated nine in terms of scalability.

Customer support is rated six. Sometimes having a fix for a bug takes too much time. While in production, issues tend to take a while to resolve.

The initial setup is quite easy. The deployment is not long, but the extensive customization, such as virtual pool licenses, takes a bit of time, about a week.

The product is expensive, but if you want to save money, the delegation set-up process is quite easy. After setting up Active Roles once, defining the delegation model, it is very efficient, almost like copy-paste.

CoreView  offers better Entra ID delegation. They conducted a study and found that CoreView  has better features than One Identity Active Roles in terms of Entra ID delegation.

I would definitely recommend One Identity Active Roles because it allows the delegation of Active Directory through a web portal instead of a console. Additionally, while the Entra ID part requires improvements, it can still delegate Entra ID objects. I rate the overall solution an 8 out of 10.

We use One Identity Active Roles  for the delegation of Active Directory administration to local entities.

It has helped improve our organization by delegating day to day tasks to entities, allowing gains in time to market for AD related tasks, and also allowing to reduce time and effort spent globally.

The most valuable features are the access templates, which allow for granular permissions, and the policies that provide a framework for usage and standardization across entities. The solution improved our organization's security posture by framing the end users and ensuring that capabilities that could cause mistakes are hidden from the web interface. It helps us ensure that entities do not make any mistakes by hiding those capabilities directly in the tools with the access templates.

There are areas for improvement in One Identity Active Roles  that include updating the web interface, creating an API accessible from the web, and improving overall performance, as it can be slow at times. But all of those are already in the development roadmap.

We have been using One Identity Active Roles since 2011, which amounts to fourteen years.

I would rate the stability as a seven because there are sometimes performance issues, which require restarting the services. This affects stability.

The solution is highly scalable, with a scalability rating of nine. It effectively handles 150,000 users.

I rate customer service and support as a seven because, although they are helpful when needed, there can be delays in responding to tickets and finding necessary fixes.

There was no previous solution in place before, as One Identity Active Roles was already implemented when I joined.

The initial setup was straightforward but took months due to the detailed design required for the access templates.

In house.

I estimate the return on investment (ROI) to be about fifteen percent.

The pricing of One Identity Active Roles is expensive, but the return on investment justifies the cost, allowing for savings in other areas.

I would recommend One Identity Active Roles due to its straightforward delegation capabilities, comprehensive management of Active Directory objects, an excellent PowerShell cmdlet suite for scripting, and a robust change history feature for auditing. The overall solution is rated as eight out of ten.