| Features | Active Administrator 4.0 | GPMC |
| OS Support | | |
| Windows versions supported for GPO management | Windows 2000
Windows 2003 | Windows 2000
Windows 2003 |
| Windows versions supported for RSoP | Windows 2000
Windows 2003 | Windows 2003 |
| MMC Snap-In | | |
| Standalone Management Application | | |
| Group Policy Management | | |
| Provides GPO settings, Security Group Filters, Security Delegation, WMI Filter and Link information | | |
| Has Built-in Reporting | | |
| Reporting Formats | RTF, PDF, HTML, XLS, TIF, RDF, Text | HTML, XML |
| Differentiates Unlinked GPOs | | |
| Manage WMI Filters | | |
| Backup and Restore GPO Settings | | |
| View all backed up GPOs as a GPO History | | |
| Edit backed up GPOs within GPO History | | |
| View version changes of backed up GPOs | | |
| Report on Settings in backed up GPOs | | |
| Resultant Set of Policies | | |
| Group Policy Results (viewing current settings) | | |
| Group Policy Modeling (viewing "what-if" scenarios) | | |
| Modeling supports WMI Filtering | | |
| Modeling can report on GPO Deltas only | | |
| Modeling can report against Offline Repository | | |
| Reporting Formats | RTF, PDF, HTML, XLS, TIF, RDF, Text | HTML, XML |
| Offline GPO Repository | | |
| Utilizes Offline GPO Repository | | |
| Check Out/Check In Offline GPOs to Edit | | |
| Edit Offline GPOs | | |
| Reporting on Offline GPO Settings | | |
| Compare Offline to Live GPO Settings | | |
| Export Offline GPO to Live AD GPO | | |
| GPO Auditing | | |
| Centralized auditing of all Live GPO administration | | |
| Client Side Troubleshooting | | |
| Centralized enabling of GPO Logging to Event Log | | |
| Centralized filtered viewing of GPO-related client-side events | | |
| Additional Capabilities | | |
| AD Permissions Management | | |
| Active Template permissions with Self-Healing capabilities | | |
| Centralized auditing of and reporting on all AD administration | | |
| Object-Level Restores of AD Objects | | |
| Price - order
