I understand what you're saying when it comes to thinking about the goals of the engagement. What we mostly get is customers wanting us to give them a health check on their AD/Exchange systems. I should of worded it differently in my original post. So I was wondering what utilities, apps etc that everyone uses or prefer's when running health checks?
Thanks again! _________________ John Bowles ________________________________ From: Brian Desmond [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AD/Exchange Assessments I have a custom tool with hundreds of rules for AD for things I check/evaluate based on best practices and also things I see at customers. It’s a list I’ve been adding to for years. I’ve also got a pretty good list of business/semi-technical questions to ask that make a lot of difference in the outcome of the report. Microsoft has tools for both products that likewise check hundreds and hundreds of things. Not an answer to your question directly, but, perhaps an idea on scope of this. I’d suggest rather than thinking tools you think first about scope and goals of the engagement. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: John Bowles [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: AD/Exchange Assessments All- I'm curious since I'm going to start doing active directory and Exchange assessments for our customers. What tools do you guys like, prefer etc when you have to go into a client site and do an assessment of their environment? Thanks, _________________ John Bowles ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
