Absolutely useful. Additionally, some of the reporting you mention, such as MPS reports can be useful as can some of the tools from ecora. Some are free some are not, but the value of the information can make it worthwhile depending on what you have to support.
Al -----Original Message----- From: Douglas M. Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Toolkit CD I find some of the foundstone free utilities useful at times. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Adner Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Toolkit CD I'm about to re-enter the wonderful world of onsite vendor support, so I figure I should re-assemble my handy-dandy CD (used to be floppies) of useful tools and such. I know little, portable USB drives can be used, too, but I'll still have a some CD's with the bulk of the tools. So, I'm looking for any suggestions on what you guys have or used to have. Items on my short list include: 1. Several of the tools from Sysinternals 2. Tools from joeware.net (some of you here may have heard of the site ;> ) 3. Support Tools for 2000 (various SP's), and 2003 4. Misc Resource Kit tools from NT, 2000, and anything I can find for 2003 I haven't really used MS's Support Reporting Tools(?), which I glanced at briefly a while back. It seemed to be a bunch of scripts and batch files that collect a bunch of system info. Anyone have much experience with them? List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
