Re: Must-have Active Directory Tools

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1. Not needed for efficient, secure and organized AD. Can't believe anyone would consider it a must have tool.

2. My comments on ScriptLogic are pretty well known at this point.

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Mike C wrote:
Thanks for the post GabriellTF- Just happened across it.

IMO, I've used tools from all of the below vendors with excepion of specopssoft. My opinon and recommendation (assuming you run a highly efficient, secure and organized AD infrastucture... or would like to):

#1 PICK - Password Reminder PRO from http://www.sysoptools.com - If you enforce a domain password expiration policy for your users, want to alert them easily when their password is expiring (lowering help desk calls from users) and want to see what is really going on with your AD user accounts. This is a 100% "must have" tool that not only gives you ability to alert users of expiring passwords but also provides a very specific reporting console for review of AD user objects, and very smartly done. It is plain awesome, and miles above using a plain ol VB script. Plus they give you a 60 day free full-vesion to try in your domain. Generous.

(BTW, they also have a "Saint" free tool that is called AD Query. It lets you look up all schema attributes associated with a user or computer object. It is a very handy free utility.)



#2 PICK- Active Administrator from http://www.scriptlogic.com. - The strong feature here is 'active templates' for AD security settings and policies. Make your security policy settings and enforce them with a template. If someone tries to change the policy on a DC, it rolls back and sends an alert to the security admin! Nice, and you no longer have to worry about enforcing AD changes in your environment or wonder 'when did that change??'.

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