Service Explorer

One of the least secure areas of a network today is service accounts, which are created for specific purposes, such as backups, given Domain Admin privileges, and, all too frequently, a very insecure password. These accounts are often neglected and it’s not unusual for an account to have the same password years later.

It can take hours of work in an enterprise-wide network to look through each computer’s services to see if a service uses the service account whose password you need to change. The same would be true to change a service’s logon account, change the startup type, or manage accounts used for scheduled tasks.

Service Explorer is a powerful and easy-to-use solution to address these time-consuming security problems. It provides centralized management of all your services and scheduled tasks from a single point – without the need for agents or scripts.

Service Explorer quickly searches your entire network for services to be managed based on criteria such a service name, description, and logon account. You can search an entire domain, or just computers in a specific Organizational Unit. The selected search criteria can be saved for repeated use at a later date. Service Explorer is supplied with a number of predefined searches for instant access to some common administrative tasks. Running as a multi-threaded application, the discovery time to find all services to be managed is significantly reduced, which ensures consistently fast and granular search results over time. To maintain security, only those accounts whose passwords are over a certain age truly need to be changed. Security Explorer provides the ability to quickly view the age of a given service account’s password, change it centrally, and then push that password change to all services running under that account.