Alternatives to ADAudit Plus
A Windows auditing tool that tracks changes in Active Directory, file servers, Windows servers and workstations. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ADAudit Plus
A Windows auditing tool that tracks changes in Active Directory, file servers, Windows servers and workstations.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ADAudit Plus.
Netwrix Auditor Community Edition
A free edition of Netwrix Auditor that tracks changes in Active Directory, file servers and Windows.
Netwrix Auditor Community Edition is free with no expiration and gives daily change summaries for AD and file servers, though its reporting is more limited than paid editions.
Also worth comparing
These listings name ADAudit Plus as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
ADRecon
A PowerShell script that gathers Active Directory information and builds an Excel report of the environment.
ADAudit Plus tracks changes across AD, Entra ID, servers and workstations as an ongoing audit trail rather than a one-time report.
BloodHound Community Edition
Maps attack paths through Active Directory and Entra ID relationships.
ADAudit Plus tracks changes across AD, Entra ID, servers and workstations as an ongoing audit rather than attack path analysis.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Purple Knight
A free Windows tool that assesses Active Directory, Entra ID and Okta for security weaknesses.
ADManager Plus
A Windows console for managing and reporting on Active Directory and Microsoft 365 accounts.
Specops Password Auditor
A free Windows tool that audits Active Directory passwords for weak, reused and compromised credentials.
AdminDroid Free
Free edition of AdminDroid's Microsoft 365 reporting, auditing and Entra ID management tool.
SharpHound
A C# collector that gathers Active Directory data for attack path analysis in BloodHound.
