IDEAL ADMINISTRATION

Version 26.8.5

All IDEAL ADMINISTRATION features: Active Directory administration and auditing, AI-analyzed alerts, remote control, and management and inventory of your Windows environment.

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Features are grouped by main use case: click a section to see its details.

Centralized administration of Active Directory and Workgroups
- Remote administration of Active Directory domains, from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2025
- Remote administration of Windows Workgroups
- Group Policy (GPO) management
- Management of Organizational Units, users, contacts and groups
- Advanced Active Directory explorer, editor and search tools
- Automated creation of Organizational Units, computers, contacts, users and groups from templates
- Local users and groups management
- 32-bit and 64-bit registry management
- Event log management
- Automatic emails to domain users
- Real-time CPU, disk and network performance graphs
- Automatic and scheduled wake-up of computers (Wake On LAN)
- ACL exploration and permission management
- Remote change of computer names and IP addresses
- WMI properties and functions management
- Product key recovery
- Scheduled remote shutdown and restart of computers and servers
Real-time Active Directory auditing
- Monitor and analyze all activity and changes in your domains in real time
- 80 Active Directory events audited across your domains and subdomains
- Graphical timeline of audited events
- Complete view of audited events
- Audit configuration: sensitive groups, number of days to review, etc.
- No complex setup and no agent: everything runs automatically from your Active Directory manager
- Examples of audited events:
  - Users modified in the last 2 days
  - Users whose password expires in 7 days
  - Users belonging to sensitive groups
  - Users with logon restrictions
  - Number of locked-out users
Real-time Active Directory alerts with Cloud AI analysis
- Real-time alerts based on native Active Directory audits, with no agent
- Precise configuration: upward variation, value or percentage threshold, severity levels
- Immediate notification and centralized alerts in a dedicated, filterable interface
- Direct access to the events behind each alert, for full traceability
- Cloud AI analysis of alerts with recommendations, stored locally
Natural language questions and answers on Active Directory with Cloud AI
- Ask questions about your Active Directory in natural language
- Answer history stored locally
- Instant search in questions and answers
- Filter questions and answers by time period
Active Directory reports in HTML and CSV
- HTML and CSV reports for an accurate, up-to-date view of your Active Directory domains
- Reports on all objects: Organizational Units, groups, users, computers, printers, contacts, Group Policy Objects, and more
- Reports can be:
  - printed and shared between administrators
  - opened in Excel, Access or any other software
  - stored in history and reopened at any time
  - scheduled and automated with Windows scheduled tasks
- Examples from the 40 predefined reports:
  - Which operating systems are present in my domain?
  - Which users have not logged on for more than 90 days?
  - Which Active Directory objects were recently deleted?
  - Which groups have no members?
Active Directory cleanup
- Disable expired user and computer accounts
- Disable inactive user and computer accounts
- Remove empty groups
- Remove empty Organizational Units
- Remove inactive user and computer accounts
- Remove disabled user and computer accounts
- Remove expired user and computer accounts
- Reset SIDHistory for users and groups
Restore deleted Active Directory objects
- List and restore recently deleted Active Directory objects
- Choose the destination folder during restoration
Role and task management
- Give people or groups access to specific software features, without giving them access to everything
- One or more delegation administrators create the roles of the software users
- Each feature can be set to Full Access, Read-only or No Access
- Users no longer need the activation key: all checks run automatically when the software starts
RustDesk remote desktop
- Modern, secure and automated remote control of computers
- Secure Pointdev RustDesk server, for better-controlled remote access
- Fully automated remote deployment and installation
- Automatic permanent password configuration
- Runs as a Windows service, including before user logon
- Connection over the LAN or outside the corporate network (remote work, mobility)
- End-to-end encryption
- Audio and video transmission
- Multi-monitor support
- Two-way file transfer with drag and drop
- No inbound port to open
- NAT and firewall traversal
- Option to restrict RustDesk to administrators only
- Security automatically applied to every remote session
- Remote uninstallation, partial or complete
- Multilingual interface
- No IDEAL ADMINISTRATION agent to install on computers
Cross-platform remote control
- Remote control with automatic remote installation on your network:
  - Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP and NT 4.0 workstations
  - Windows Server 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 and 2012 R2, 2008 and 2008 R2, 2003 and 2000
  - 32-bit and 64-bit architectures
- Remote control of macOS and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora) with a VNC server enabled
- Screen sharing with the user
- Connection approval by the remote user (if configured)
- Chat between administrator and user
- File transfer between computers
- Automatic screenshots in JPEG, BMP or PNG
- Connection history for fast access to computers
- Custom settings per computer group
- Command prompt on the remote computer
- Remote control sessions logged in a database
Remote control over the Internet
- For Windows computers outside the corporate network, through our “Pointdev Remote Control” (PRC) agent, installed and configured beforehand
- PRC is compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 and Vista and Windows Server 2025 to 2008 R2, 32-bit and 64-bit
- Computers running PRC automatically appear in IDEAL ADMINISTRATION for fast, secure remote control
Access from smartphones and tablets
- Remote control of servers and computers from an iOS or Android smartphone or tablet
- Requires a Wi-Fi network within the organization
Remote network security management
- Windows Firewall configuration and management
- Create, modify and delete rules
- Windows Update configuration
- User Account Control (UAC) configuration
- Manage multiple computers simultaneously
Remote management of software and product keys
- Installed software and hotfix management
- Remote product key recovery
- Manage multiple computers simultaneously
Remote management of services and processes
- Service and device management
- Process management, with remote stop
- Scheduled task management (v1.0 and v2.0)
- Manage multiple computers simultaneously
Remote management of sharing and printing
- Shared folder management
- Printer management
- Open file management
- Open session management
- Terminal Services (TSE) session management
- Remote Shadow management (TSE)
- Manage multiple computers simultaneously
Database inventory of your IT environment
- Inventories stored in Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL Server
- Inventory export to CSV and HTML
- Scheduled, automated inventories with Database Exporter and Windows scheduled tasks
- Inventories on a selection of domains, workgroups, Organizational Units or computers
- All inventories can be run from the command line
- View and manage inventories directly in the software, with no MS Access needed on the admin workstation
- A single database shared by all administrators
- Objects stored in the database:
  - Organizational Units, GPOs, computer accounts, groups, users, printers and contacts
  - files and folders (properties and ACLs), shared folders (properties and ACLs)
  - registry (32-bit and 64-bit), events, user rights, printers, scheduled tasks (v1.0 and v2.0), drives, network drives, services, devices and system information
  - network configuration (network adapters, IP settings, MAC addresses)
  - firewall and firewall rules, UAC and Windows Update
  - installed software and hotfixes, software licenses (Microsoft, Adobe, Pointdev…)
  - all WMI properties
Migration and consolidation between Windows domains and servers
- Organizational Unit transfer
- Group transfer
- User account transfer
- User password transfer (from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2008 R2)
- Contact transfer
- Shared folder transfer
- File and folder transfer with their access permissions (ACLs)
- Migration wizard for scheduled or command-line execution
Multi-tab, multi-domain interface
- Explorer-style, multi-tab interface for fast access to computers in domains, workgroups and VLANs
- Tabs you can customize to suit your use:
  - domain or workgroup computers (NetBIOS)
  - Active Directory domain
  - remote control history
  - Internet remote control
  - VPN
  - favorites
  - external tools
  - FAQ or Internet
- Export of all lists to HTML or CSV
- Choice of computer properties to display
- Computer properties saved in a database
- Multi-threading for simultaneous access to several computers
- Configuration wizard for a quick start
Intervention management across your IT environment
- Planning of interventions to perform
- Recording of status changes
- Database shared by administrators
Monitoring of sessions and open files
- Recording of sessions and open files on the network
- Daily logging to CSV files
Languages and documentation
- Software available in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
- Electronic documentation