You will find that many of the "professional" tools are simply glossy gui's and nice output over what adfind does for you. I understand why people would pay lots of money for that, but if you have the capability and time to to do your own pretty reports and aren't afraid of the GUI the free utilities can save some serious coin. :)
joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Reporting Tool? FWIW in terms of horsepower I used to do this sort of data for hundreds of thousands of objects with Joe's tool. You'll find it has quite a bit of horsepower, you just need to fill in the Excel or SQL to get your report exactly how you want it. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Wahlers > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Reporting Tool? > > Many thanks to everybody who replied. I wish I could FTP you all a few > Anheuser-Busch products of your choice from St. Louis in return! > > I downloaded Hyena, Exporter, Exporter Express, Quest Reporter (the > freeware version, too) and finally thought about the Joeware AdFind > product, which I'd been meaning to try for a while but didn't have a > reason until now. Anyway, AdFind worked just fine to give the auditors > exactly what they wanted. > > Someday we'll probably need the higher horsepower these other tools > provide, but for now, Joe's product came through for us just great. > > -- > Larry Wahlers > Concordia Technologies > The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > direct office line: (314) 996-1876 > 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 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 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
