Active Roles

Years of business growth, shifting priorities and resource constraints leave most organizations with a sprawling tangle of accounts, groups and privileged access that’s difficult to manage and hard to audit. Native Microsoft tools can only take you so far, and the remaining gaps create operational overhead and unchecked risk.

Active Roles is purpose-built to streamline Microsoft environments. It picks up where native tooling leaves off, arming your team with visibility, control and governance capabilities needed to protect your business today and scale with confidence tomorrow.

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Key benefits

Automated enforcement

Stop chasing access issues across distributed systems and start enforcing policy the moment it matters, for protection across your Microsoft environment, including Active Directory, Entra ID and Microsoft 365.

Streamlined administration

Organize and simplify your environment. Eliminate permanent access rights that haven’t been turned off and gain visibility and control of all Microsoft environments on a single system and console.

Accelerated path to IGA

Enforce administrative and governance policies inside your Microsoft directories. Prepare your Microsoft directory environment for a clean, organized and safer complement to your IGA solution.

Protected Microsoft identity environment

Eliminate standing privileges and track changes to synchronize identities across directories and deploy Zero Trust Least Privilege for AD, Entra ID and Microsoft 365.

Industry Awards

One Identity Active Roles named No. 1 Active Directory management tool

Best Identity & Access Management Solutions (IAM) in 2025

Cornell University streamlines and protects a distributed AD environment

"With Active Roles in place, we planned out a good model for managing delegation, naming standards, OU structure and access to AD for several hundred admins."

Muhammad Arif – Identity Management CIT, Cornell University
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Greif simplifies and strengthens Active Directory security

"We’ve been using Active Roles for more than 10 years. We believe that automation is key in working more efficiently as an organization."

Luc de Smet – Senior Manager of Digital Workspace Solutions and Security Infrastructure Team
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Falkenberg Municipality

"One of our most important tasks was to automate all the processes that we could. With Active Roles, this has been a great success."

Torbjörn Larsson – CIO, Falkenberg Municipality
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Cabarrus County Schools boosts AD efficiency and security with Active Roles

"The automation provided by Active Roles, One Identity and your other products just takes away the need for the constant edits and the constant manual adds and removals, freeing your st…"

Mickey Farmer – Director of Systems Technology and Innovation
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Features

Single console for hybrid Microsoft Administration and governance

Manage and protect your entire Microsoft environment, including AD, Entra ID and Microsoft 365, from a single interface

Workflow automation

Streamline processes and implement and enforce consistent policies

Lifecycle management

Ensure immediate least privilege for all accounts using automation and scripting

Synchronization with real-time updates

Extend policies for consistency and accuracy

Efficient group management

Control access and permissions based on attributes

Change history activity tracking

Comply with regulations, satisfy audits and remediate as needed

Least privilege with RBAC

Apply fine-grained privilege access precisely to protect your environment across Active Directory domains and Entra ID and Microsoft 365 tenants for zero standing privileges using role-based access control (RBAC)

Delegation in Active Roles

In just three minutes, explore the fine-grained delegation capabilities in Active Roles that can keep your privileges and permissions under control for maximum AD security. Examine Active Roles features with Ian Stimpson, One Identity Solutions Architect, to see the centralized, policy-driven permissions delegation that can drastically reduce your AD attack surface.

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Sameer P.Managing Director at Amal it

Sameer P.

Managing Director at Amal it

Enables zero trust security with hybrid AD fine-grained delegation and role-based access control

Jun 5, 2023

I previously used ManageEngine ADManager Plus, but I switched to One Identity Active Roles because it is more robust and highly scalable. Read more
Director, Identity & M365 Engineering at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Director, Identity & M365 Engineering at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

One Identity Active Roles absolutely helps reduce identity-based breaches. It is from an identity governance perspective, being able to ensure that folks that are in specific

Dec 23, 2025

One Identity Active Roles absolutely helps reduce identity-based breaches. It is from an identity governance perspective, being able to ensure that folks that are in specific positions have Read more