I.E. This is easy money for the company, please don't distribute the tool that collects the data as that is really the whole ADRAP for the most part unless the people getting it really haven't a clue what they are doing with AD at all at which point you should be looking at spending money on getting admins who have a clue versus bringing in MSFT for a one shot peek.
Until Microsoft puts together a AD and Exchange RAP that looks at both together and tries to determine the causes of issues from each other I see the whole RAP thing as having very limited use in Orgs that use AD and Exchange. If you just use AD then it is pretty decent. However if you have both, the Exchange RAP tends to point at AD saying that it has massive issues and the AD RAP tends to say things are pretty decent. Or at least that is the results I have seen in every single case where both RAPs have been performed. Certainly the analysis was nothing to write home about. However I expect that entirely depends on who you happen to get in the drawing of who does your analysis, the skill levels vary greatly as I have seen some pretty intelligent things in the analysis and I have seen some absolutely stinkeroo completely incorrect things where you wonder if the analyzer had actually every been introduced to AD. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Snapshot Tool (ADST) - how useful is it? The tool is not the property of anyone on this list. As such, making it available on the list would be inappropriate. The goal of this tool has never been to be a stand-alone AD monitoring tool, nor even a snapshot tool. Rather, it was built specifically around the field offering of an AD risk assessment. As such, outside of that, the tool likely has little context, and may or may not be at all helpful. That said, it is available in this context only, to the best of my knowledge. ~Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas M. Long Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Snapshot Tool (ADST) - how useful is it? I missed if anyone was making this tool available to the list? :) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
