Active Directory Tools

Active Directory can become a complex and large database to work with. If you need to make modifications to several objects at once you will find that Active Directory provides very little built in functionality for this.
Active Directory Management also would include the need for creating reports but you will also find there are [...]

Having Active Directory Reporting Tools is very beneficial to System Administrators and for management. Some companies must be in compliance and must pass an audit every year. Being able to report on Active Directory will help in these types of situations. For a System Administrator it is crucial to know what is going on [...]

Active Directory Migration Tools (ADMT) allows you to migrate objects such as users, groups, service account, and computers from one domain to another domain. The Active Directory Migration Tool will perform security translations so that users can maintain access to network resources during the migration process. Active Directory Migration Tool can be ran from [...]

OldCmp is an Active Directory query tool used to find and cleanup old computer accounts that haven’t been used. It can also be used to clean up old unused user accounts. Oldcmp was built because there was no easy way to report on old un-used computers in Active Directory.
If a computer account [...]

ADSI Edit is an LDAP editor for managing objects in Active Directory. This Active Directory tool lets you view objects and attributes that are not exposed in the Active Directory Management Console.
ASDI Edit is part of the Windows Server 2003 Support Tools. If you copy the support tools to your computer instead of installing [...]

ADModify is an Active Directory Tool used for making bulk changes to Active Directory Attributes. For example you need to change the logon script for a large list of users. With ADModify you can make this change for everybody at one time. This is much faster than opening each user account and changing the [...]

Active Directory Recycle Bin is a new tool in Windows 2008 R2. This Active Directory Tool will preserve and recover accidentally deleted Active Directory objects. Restoring deleted objects before Windows 2008 R2 was not a simple process. The process would require a restore from backing using the ntdsutil authoritative restore command. A big limitation to [...]

When you install a domain Controller it will install a basic set of Active Directory Tools. These tools are the basis for setting up and managing your Active Directory Infrastructure. These active directory tools installed by default are Active Directory Users and Computers, Active Directory Sites and Services and Active Directory Domain Services.

Active Directory Monitoring in a large organization can be an overwhelming task. There are many services, events, folders and policies that must be monitored in Active Directory to insure a healthy environment. There are many individual Active Directory tools and software packages that provide a centralized view of Active Directory across the entire forest. Active [...]