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ManageEngine ADManager Plus

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Velocity0.0

Active Directory management, reporting, and automation tool

www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager ↗

ADManager Plus keeps a steady maintenance cadence while layering Zia AI and marketplace extensibility on top.

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◆Current state
ADManager Plus is in a mature, build-by-build maintenance rhythm: most releases pair a handful of fixed issues with the occasional security patch and a targeted enhancement. Underneath that steady stream, two more strategic threads have appeared — a Zia AI assistant for natural-language AD management and a Marketplace that lets admins install third-party extensions and manage those identities from within the product.
◆Where it's heading
The product is broadening from pure Active Directory / Microsoft 365 management toward an extensible identity-operations hub, with AI (Zia, Zia Insights) as the emerging query layer and the Marketplace as the extensibility layer. But the dominant signal remains hardening — JRE upgrades, Kerberos AES support, CVE fixes — suggesting the roadmap is being executed conservatively for an enterprise, on-prem-heavy install base.
◆Prediction
Expect continued security-and-stability builds punctuated by incremental Zia capabilities and more Marketplace extensions as ManageEngine builds out the third-party ecosystem.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Build 8042: Log360 and M365 automation fixes, security patch

    Build 8042 fixes Log360 integration and M365 automation issues and patches a privilege-related vulnerability (ZVE-2026-1924) — routine maintenance and security hardening in the ongoing build cadence.

  2. 3mo ago

    Builds 8040/8041: JRE 11.86.19 upgrade and bug fixes

    Builds 8040/8041 move to JRE 11.86.19 and clear several GUI and reporting bugs — an infrastructure bump plus fixes, no new user-facing capability.

  3. 5mo ago

    Build 8036: M365 security-group modify support, CPU fix

    Build 8036 adds Security group-type support in the M365 Modify Single Group action and fixes an anomaly-detection CPU issue — a real new management option on top of stability work.

  4. 5mo ago

    Build 8035: macro, reporting, and template bug fixes

    Build 8035 is a fixes-only release resolving macro, report-basis, and template edge cases — pure maintenance.

  5. 5mo ago

    Build 8034: Marketplace Extensions for third-party identity apps

    Build 8034 introduces Marketplace Extensions — installing third-party app extensions and managing those identities from within ADManager Plus — plus multi-domain CSV reporting, the clearest step toward an extensible identity hub.

  6. 6mo ago

    Build 8033: Kerberos AES encryption support, stability fixes

    Build 8033 adds Kerberos AES 128/256 encryption support in user creation/modification alongside crash and scheduled-report fixes — a security-posture enhancement plus stability work.