NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter is a free tool that reports the changes made to Active Directory and delivers a summary and detailed information on a daily basis.

The report includes the 4 "W"s - Who, What, When, and Where - of all changes and includes "before" and "after" values for each setting. This report lists changes made to AD and Exchange configurations, mailboxes, AD schema and many more.

Generated data can be used to:
· Monitor day-to-day administrative activities.
· Prepare compliance reports for your SOX, GLBA and HIPAA auditors.

NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter records all modifications, including both user and administrative activity, and e-mails daily reports to AD administrators detailing every Active Directory change.

Collected audit data is archived and can be stored for years, so you can build a summary of changes made to Active Directory during any period and drill down to detailed information as necessary.

This archiving function will enable the organizations to analyze policy violations, take the best security measures and maintain established internal policies.

Active Directory change auditing is an important procedure for limiting unauthorized changes and errors to AD configuration. One single change can put your organization at risk, introducing security breaches and compliance issues.

Built-in Active Directory auditing lacks many important features and doesn't have reporting capabilities. Careful analysis of multi-megabyte Security logs can take enormous resources and still never paint the whole picture.

Limitations:

· The freeware version does not include advanced features such as Who and When fields, long term change archiving, schema change detection and has limited technical support.