Universal Policy Administrator has an offline repository where you can test and manage changes to Universal Policies before rolling them out into the live environment. This helps in avoiding potentially catastrophic changes that can impact network or service availability.
Universal Policy Administrator has a change management workflow and delegation model to safely involve all Universal Policy stakeholders and built-in tools to analyze, compare, troubleshoot, and test Universal Policies. The comprehensive reporting capability helps in documenting regulatory compliances.
The benefits of using the Universal Policy Administrator are:
Provides a buffer from making errors in a live Active Directory environment
Lets you compare and view differences between Universal Policies
Performs health checks to ensure Universal Policies are not corrupted
Lets you quickly roll back to a last known good version of a Universal Policy
Stores backup copies of Universal Policies including WMI filters and links
Lets you centrally manage Universal Policies in untrusted domains
Lets you migrate Universal Policies from one domain to another
Lets you delegate Universal Policy changes to appropriate people while limiting Active Directory permissions
Universal Policy Administrator helps manage policies in a hybrid environment with the help of a Web Console. By deploying Universal Policy Administrator in your hybrid environment, you can:
Enforce secure password and account policies
Ensure access to network resources
Secure network and wireless communications
Comply with government and industry regulations such as HIPAA, PCI DSS and many others
It helps secure and unify hybrid environment operations across multiple policy silos including Active Directory, Linux, Mac, and Cloud.
It helps large enterprises with hybrid environments to automate the following types of tasks:
Enforcing consistent use of Universal Policies across the enterprise
Managing and maintaining Universal Policies across trust barriers
Automatically deploying Universal Policies during non-peak hours
Diagnosing problems and differences between Universal Policies