The AdGUARD user guide
The AdGUARD user guide is published free to read. It is written from the application itself, not from a brochure: every screen described exists, every figure quoted is the one in the catalog. It takes you from installation to handing an audit report to the client.
Who it is for
The auditor discovering the tool
The order follows a real engagement: install, activate, connect, scope, audit, deliver. Read front to back, it doubles as training.
The audited client's administrator
They find exactly what the tool reads, with which rights, and what it does not do: no writes, no agent. This is often the document that unblocks access.
The manager preparing an engagement
The “typical engagement” appendix and the reports chapter give you the substance of a proposal without inventing anything.
What the guide covers
Each chapter stands on its own and cross-references the others; the side table of contents stays visible throughout.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Installation and first run
- 3. License and activation
- 4. Application name and reports
- 5. Managing audited domains
- 6. The Active Directory connector
- 7. Controls and categories
- 8. Compliance frameworks
- 9. The ANSSI maturity model
- 10. Baselines
- 11. Running an audit
- 12. Results, history and comparison
- 13. The dashboard
- 14. Attack paths and trusts
- 15. Reports and exports
- 16. Performance
- 17. Appendices
Chapter 14 is specific to AdGUARD: it explains how to read the three-column attack path graph, how a path is scored, and how the trust map flags TGT delegation or missing SID filtering.
And the appendices
- File layout
- Troubleshooting
- A typical engagement
- Security and privacy
- Glossary
How to read it
The guide is a standalone web document: one file, no dependency, a sticky side table of contents and Ctrl+F search. It prints as-is to PDF from the browser, with clean page breaks. Network members additionally receive the paginated Word and PDF editions, and the English version.