A few years back, in a customer project, I finally understood how expensive “just give them admin rights for a bit” can get when you do it wrong. One employee had permanent Domain Admin rights because he “needed to do stuff in AD every now and then.” When I asked how often that actually happened, […]

Vor ein paar Jahren hab ich in einem Kundenprojekt zum ersten Mal wirklich verstanden, wie teuer “kurz mal Admin-Rechte geben” werden kann, wenn man es falsch macht. Ein Mitarbeiter hatte dauerhaft Domain-Admin-Rechte, weil er “eh öfter mal was in der AD machen muss”. Als ich gefragt hab, wie oft das tatsächlich vorkommt, war die ehrliche

I’ve gotten my hands on a lot of Active Directory management tools over the years. First as an admin at various companies, and later while building au2mator, because I wanted to fix exactly the gaps that used to annoy me back when I was the one on call. If you’re googling “Active Directory management tool”

Ich hab in den letzten Jahren ziemlich viele Active Directory Management Tools angefasst. Als Admin selbst in verschiedenen Firmen, und später beim Bauen von au2mator, weil ich genau die Lücken schließen wollte, die mich vorher als Admin genervt haben. Wenn du gerade “Active Directory Management Tool” googelst, landest du ziemlich sicher bei denselben drei oder

au2mator is the workflow automation platform for mid-sized IT teams in the DACH region that want to automate complex processes without diving deep into PowerShell or Ansible. Through an intuitive web interface, workflows are defined, delegated, and executed. The result: hours of manual work become one-click processes.

au2mator is the IT self-service portal for mid-sized companies in the DACH region that want to bring their IT automation to a broader audience safely and simply. Employees handle IT tasks such as password resets, group memberships, or user creation themselves through a simple web interface, without writing a ticket.

Azure Automation is powerful. Without the right frontend, however, it remains a tool for admins only. au2mator closes this gap: as a web-based self-service portal, it makes Azure Automation Runbooks usable by every employee, without PowerShell knowledge or Azure access.