Editions

Choose the edition that fits your organisation. All editions include the core Active Directory management tools, with advanced automation and MIS integration available in Pro and Education.

ActivMan Free
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ActivMan Pro
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ActivMan Education
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High-Level Comparison

Feature / Edition Free Pro Education
Manual AD user & group management Tick Tick Tick
Templates & mass-updates Tick Tick Tick
CSV import Tick Tick Tick
Automated home folder creation Tick Tick Tick
Custom scripts on events Tick Tick Tick
MIS integration Tick Tick Tick
Auto-sync AD ↔ MIS Tick Tick Tick
Teaching/registration group creation Tick Tick Tick
Multi-site domain support Tick Tick Tick

Free Tag ActivMan Free

Ideal for small organisations needing a clean, reliable AD user manager.

Features:

  • Manage multiple servers, networks, and domains
  • Create, edit, and delete user accounts manually
  • Create, edit, and delete groups manually
  • Add or remove users from groups
  • Move users between OUs
  • Reset passwords
  • Enable or disable accounts

Professional User ActivMan Pro

Built for businesses and other non-school organisations that want to stop provisioning accounts by hand. No MIS or scripting knowledge required — templates and mass-updates turn routine account admin into a few clicks, saving hours every time staff join, change role, or leave.

Includes all Free features, plus:

  • Test imports to preview changes before applying
  • Customisable username formats
  • Unlimited user account templates
  • Create accounts from templates to reduce errors
  • Automatic home directory and share creation
  • Automatic permissions assignment
  • Automatic password generation (including word‑list support)
  • Copy existing user accounts
  • Import users from CSV using templates
  • Apply templates to existing users
  • Mass-manipulate multiple accounts:
    • Modify usernames
    • Reset passwords
    • Update descriptions
    • Change profile paths
    • Change logon scripts
  • Execute custom scripts on user events
  • Replace specific characters in name fields during import

Student ActivMan Education

Built for schools and colleges needing full MIS integration and automated AD provisioning.

Includes all Pro features, plus:

  • Automatic import of users from MIS systems
  • Full AD ↔ MIS synchronisation
  • Extract students and staff directly from MIS
  • Import teaching groups as AD groups
  • Import registration groups as AD groups
  • Automatically create and maintain year groups
  • Automatically create “teachers of student” groups
  • Automatically create “room staff” groups
  • Support for multi‑site domains with user and data movement
  • Ability to ignore specific MIS people during sync

Which Edition Should I Choose?

Free – Best for small organisations or those needing manual AD management.

Pro – Best for businesses and other organisations (not schools) that want to eliminate manual, repetitive account admin.

Education – Best for schools/colleges needing MIS integration and full AD synchronisation.