4sysops - Active Directory Reporting Tool - quick overview of user states

Active Directory Reporting Tool (ADRT) allows you to sort user objects depending on a couple of important attributes: disabled, locked, expires, never expires, expired, password expires, password never expires, password expired, and never logged in. You can find this information with Microsoft’s built-in Active Directory tools also. However, with ADRT, it costs you just a mouse click to find out which users in your domain have been disabled for instance.

The tool enables you to display all users regardless to which container they belong to, you can list all groups having members or not, and you can view all organizational units and computers. ADRT is able to display all attributes of a certain Active Directory object. However, you cannot change any attributes. ADRT is just a reporting tool.

The tools also work on Windows Server 2008. I am running it on a Vista machine and it seems to be faster than the RSAT tools. The download page has an EXE and an MSI file. I recommend downloading the MSI. It works on all platforms.

Active Directory Reporting Tool

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Comment by John — May 5, 2008 @ 5:01 pm

This tool is good but has one major flaw. It seems to max out at 1000 computers when loading the records. This has been pointed out to the author on Mar 13th but has not been addressed yet. I would love to leverage this tool but with over 8000 PCs in our AD, it does not help.

Comment by Michael — May 5, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

I think the main benefit of the tool is that you can display user states quickly. I hope you don’t have 1000 disabled or locked users in your AD.

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Comment by Chris Danielson — May 6, 2008 @ 7:17 pm

Thanks to 4sysops and Michael Pietroforte for reviewing our product. The 1000 limitation currently found in the AD Reports product has been fixed and will be released in our next 1.0.0.4 release. We are on the brink of releasing this product within the next month or two.

Comment by Gilles Thibeau — May 6, 2008 @ 11:28 pm

This is a bad tool.

Comment by Chris Danielson — May 7, 2008 @ 5:18 pm

Gilles, what can we do to improve the tool?
-Chris

Comment by Michael — May 9, 2008 @ 10:17 pm

Chris, why not add some editing capabilities? It would be great if one could unlock a user account, for example.

Comment by Dean — May 10, 2008 @ 2:08 am

That looks like an interesting and helpful AD tool. I will give it a try and if it works fine I will post a Screencast at NetoMeter.

Dean
http://www.netometer.com

Comment by Chris Danielson — May 13, 2008 @ 5:59 pm

Sorry for the late response. Michael, great idea! Igor and I have been talking about import/export functionality since the inception of AD Reports. We are planning on eventually moving the product in this direction.

Dean, thank you for offering the link. I will post a link back to you as well.
Regards,
Chris

Comment by Jeff — May 14, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

It’s hard to complain about a free tool, however it has limited usability without the capability of exporting to at least a couple of different formats.