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Active Directory Management Framework

Putting Active Directory into Source Control

Define your Desired State

Write Human-readable config files, not code.

Active Directory SchemaAD Schema represented as a blueprint wireframe castle — class hierarchy shown as UML-style boxes with inheritance connectors, no crane, ground and tree unchanged.

From Schema extensions ...

And all the high-Level Forest settings ...

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... to individual access rules

Define the way your Active Directory is supposed to look like.

Active Directory Group MembershipsAD Group Memberships: person silhouettes clustered around group rings, connected by membership lines, with a domain orbit enclosing the castle.

Then test your existing Forest

Find all deviations, then either fix them all or cherry-pick what you can apply. Test results directly become your change documentation.

Set up new Environments

Which for once actually reflect your production environments.

And more to discover

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