Welcome to our website. Here you will be able to find tools for managing Windows Active Directory. There are many different software developers that have created tools for automating the time consuming tasks that system Administrators have to deal with on a day to day basis. For example managing user accounts in Active Directory, organizing the computer and user accounts into the right folder, cleaning up old accounts, monitoring the Domain Controllers to ensure they are running healthy, etc. Some of these Active Directory tasks require a deeper knowledge in Active Directory Management and related technologies.
Software that can automate these time consuming tasks, will help avoid manual, error prone administrative activities on Active Directory and saves time and cost
FSMO Roles is a tool that will identify Domain Controllers that hold FSMO roles. Domain Controllers have certain roles assigned to them; these roles are called FSMO roles (Flexible Single Master Operations). The FSMO Roles tool provides a GUI interface for identifying which Domain Controllers hold FSMO roles.
The Five FSMO Roles
1. Schema Master – The [...]
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The Active Directory Account Cleanup Wizard is a tool for merging duplicate Active Directory account that is created when multiple directories are migrated or upgraded to Active Directory.
The cleanup wizard searches Active Directory for duplicate Windows NT accounts, and then suggests merge operations that would remove the duplicate accounts. Once an operation has been [...]
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Active Directory Domain Rename Tools (domainrename.exe) provide a security enhanced and supported method to rename one or more domains in an Active Directory forest. The DNS name and NetBios name of a domain can be changed using the Domain Rename Tools.
These tools are for use with Windows 2003 Server only. The Rename Tools is [...]
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Exchange Load Generator is a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI, OWA, IMAP, POP and SMTP on Exchange Servers. You should use this tool in a test environment and not in your exchange production environment.
Exchange Load Generator allows you to test how a server running exchange responds to email loads. To [...]
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ExchMbx is an Exchange command line tool for doing various exchange tasks. Tasks include: enabling/disabling users, contacts, groups, mailbox enabling/disabling and moving user mailboxes.
ExchMbx needs to be run on a Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server; these machines also need to have the Exchange System Manager tools installed.
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Repadmin is a command line tool to help troubleshoot Active Directory Replication issues. This is a simple and powerful tool that is in the Windows Server Support Tools package. You can use Repadmin to verify whether or not replication between domain controllers is occurring.
So for example, you modify a user account on Domain [...]
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Account Lockout and Management Tools is a free set of tools provided by Microsoft to help troubleshoot account lockout problems. The Microsoft Lockout Tools includes 7 add-ons and tools to help troubleshoot account lockout issues.
The Account Lockout and Management Tools is an extracted executable called ALTools.exe. This file can be downloaded from the [...]
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Windows 2008 Server has a new feature allowing administrators to create snapshots of the Active Directory database. Active Directory snapshots allow read-only access to your backups through LDAP.
The limitation to this is you cannot copy items or information from the snapshot to the production database. The Directory Service Comparison Tool makes [...]
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The Group Policy Inventory Tool allows you to collect group policy information from computers on the network. This program lets you query and retrieve system information with Resultant Set of User Policy (RSOP) and/or Windows® Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries from multiple remote hosts.
This tool is easy to use, select the computers to query by [...]
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Group Policy Management Console simplifies managing Group Policies across a Windows Server 2000 2003 and 2008 Active Directory environment. If you have implemented Group Policies in your Active Directory environment you have probably ran into the problem of remembering where a Group Policy is located.
Prior to having the GPMC tool loaded you would have [...]
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