Many businesses rely on individuals not attached to their company to make the changes to their websites and online directories. The average business owner is fluent in what is needed for his specific field of industry or service, but not necessarily what is necessary to convey this message to the general public. The online representative of the business, the webpage, is often beyond their ability to control or manufacture. They then must outsource this aspect of the business to those who are more fluent in the building of websites. The active directory audit allows them to track these individuals and the changes that they make.

Every time someone logs onto the website to make changes this is noted in the active directory audit filing system. As these changes are being made, the individual who is making them is noted; the computer that he is using as well as the changes he makes is noted. The time that it takes him to complete the task is also noted. This can help the business owner to check that the individual who is paid to handle his webpage is making the appropriate adjustments and not simply logging on and off simply to get paid for being active on the website.



Many individuals who work on the websites charge by the hour. There are some individuals who are less than professional and attempt to charge the business owner for repairs that were not done and hourly sessions that took only minutes but left them logged onto the website for hours. This can become very expensive for the business owner and a means of determining what changes were made was necessary to provide protection, the active directory audit, to these business owners. Without this protection, the business owner could be paying less than honest individuals a large amount of money for work that was not done.



The web and technology savvy individuals use the active directory audit to determine where a potential problem or glitch is occurring and why. There are those business owners who attempt to create their own website and manage it. These individual may inadvertently create an error that can be detrimental to the website's actions. These errors must be corrected before the website can be fully functional again. The web savvy individuals are able to look at the directory history and begin to determine where the error occurred and what they can do to correct the error.