Top 10 Free Tools for Change Auditing & Password Management

Tracks changes to Active Directory (AD) users, group memberships, OUs, permissions, and provides visibility into what’s happening inside your AD.

Reports on what’s happening inside your Exchange servers, and tracks both configuration and permission changes with “before” and “after” values.

Tracks changes to files and shares permissions, detects deleted and newly-created files, and reports on file-access attempts.

Detects changes made to your SQL Server configurations, including database creation and deletion, changes to database users, roles, and schemas.

Allows you to control changes in your virtual environments. It notifies you about changes to VMware virtual machine settings, creation and deletion of virtual machines.

Alerts you about changes made to your Windows Server configurations, including installed software and hardware, services and scheduled tasks.

Alerts on account lockouts, helps troubleshoot these events, and analyzes their potential causes. The accounts can be unlocked via Netwrix Account Lockout Examiner console or mobile device.

Automatically reminds your users to change their passwords before they expire so you can avoid password reset calls.

Allows users to reset forgotten passwords and unlock their accounts through a convenient, web-based, self-service portal and integration with the standard Windows logon procedure.