Key Features and Benefits

• Improves the security of your Windows environment by effectively managing Group Policies offline to eliminate the need for Group Policy-specific permissions within Active Directory.
• Assures regulatory compliance through extensive auditing and reporting capabilities that document exactly which settings are in place and which ones have changed. Point-in-Time analysis and extensive comparison reports make ensuring policies are consistent and unchanged across the enterprise easy.
• Provides advanced analysis via offline RSoP to simulate the effect of modifying the Group Policy environment without having to first deploy the modified GPO.
• Reduces error risk when configuring GPOs with enhanced change- and release-management capabilities. You can automate version control and enforce approval for changes before promotion to the live environment.
• Protects legacy investments with support for Microsoft Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) backup, migration and report formats. NetIQ Group Policy Administrator has a similar look and feel, allowing both tools to co-exist in the same environment when necessary.