Fri 2 May 2008
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
(22 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)
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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.
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.
[...] Active Directory Reporting Tool EIn Reporting-Tool für das Active-Directory. Schaut ganz nett aus - habe ich noch nicht getestet. MIt dem Tool lassen sich relativ zügig Benutzer/Gruppen/Computer mit einem bestimmten Status in einer Active Directory Domäne finden. [...]
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.
This is a bad tool.
Gilles, what can we do to improve the tool?
-Chris
Chris, why not add some editing capabilities? It would be great if one could unlock a user account, for example.
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
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
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.
I like the “Active Directory Reporter” tool from http://www.jijitechnologies.com
The JiJi Technologies tool is nice and the UI is very similiar to ours. BUT, we have found in our testing of the product that it isn’t 100% accurate in particular situations. The first instance where it is not accurate is in regards to “locked out” users. Active Directory Reports from MaxPowerSoft takes domain security policies into account during the process of reporting information to the end user. Because of our programmatic logic, we are able to produce solid results that reflect company policies and protocol.
Great tool. It can help a lot in administering the AD.