Alternatives to Netwrix Auditor Community Edition
A free edition of Netwrix Auditor that tracks changes in Active Directory, file servers and Windows. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Netwrix Auditor Community Edition
A free edition of Netwrix Auditor that tracks changes in Active Directory, file servers and Windows.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Netwrix Auditor Community Edition.
ADAudit Plus
A Windows auditing tool that tracks changes in Active Directory, file servers, Windows servers and workstations.
ADAudit Plus audits Active Directory, Entra ID, file servers and workstations with account lockout analysis, but its free edition is limited to 25 workstations.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
ADManager Plus
A Windows console for managing and reporting on Active Directory and Microsoft 365 accounts.
Purple Knight
A free Windows tool that assesses Active Directory, Entra ID and Okta for security weaknesses.
Specops Password Auditor
A free Windows tool that audits Active Directory passwords for weak, reused and compromised credentials.
ADRecon
A PowerShell script that gathers Active Directory information and builds an Excel report of the environment.
Open-AudIT
An agentless network discovery and IT inventory tool with configuration change tracking and compliance reporting.
Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell
Microsoft's PowerShell cmdlets for managing Active Directory domains, AD LDS and related tools.
