The following table describes some general scenarios that you can use
ADReport for.
In addition to the general scenarios described above, we list also 50 specific cases what you can use ADReport for. Note that the following table is
not an exhaustive list.
Quite often you can get the result you want by first opening the report html
table in Excel, and then using the AutoFilter feature of Excel (in the Data
menu) to filter out the rows you want.
| Report |
Specific Sample Scenario |
| Users |
List of users whose password never expires |
| Users |
List of disabled users |
| Users |
List of users who are not required to have a password |
| Users |
List of users whose password has expired |
| Users |
List of users who where created and/or modified after a certain date
& time |
| Users |
List of administrative users (admin count > 0) |
| Users |
List of users with many bad password attempts |
| Users |
List of users who have not set password for some time |
| Users |
List of users who have not logged on for some time |
| Users |
List of users who have subordinate objects |
| Users |
List of users who have a SID history |
| Users |
List of mail-enabled and/or mailbox-enabled users |
| Users |
List of users whose e-mail addresses are not controlled by Exchange
recipient policy |
| Users |
List of users with a maximum receiving message size |
| Users |
List of users hidden from Exchange GAL |
| Users |
If you delete a user account, you won't see her name in permission
lists anymore, but her SID instead. You can find out the corresponding
name by looking up the SID in a User report that was generated prior to
the account deletion. |
| Contacts |
List of contacts who were created and/or modified after a certain
date & time |
| Contacts |
List of mail-enabled contacts |
| Contacts |
List of contacts whose e-mail addresses are not controlled by
Exchange recipient policy |
| Contacts |
List of contacts with a maximum receiving message size |
| Contacts |
List of contacts hidden from Exchange GAL |
| Groups |
List of groups with a given scope and type |
| Groups |
List of groups which where created and/or modified after a certain
date & time |
| Groups |
List of administrative groups (admin count > 0) |
| Groups |
List of groups who have a SID history |
| Groups |
List of mail-enabled groups |
| Groups |
List of groups whose e-mail addresses are not controlled by Exchange
recipient policy |
| Groups |
List of groups with a maximum receiving message size |
| Groups |
List of groups hidden from Exchange GAL |
| Groups |
If you delete a group, you won't see its name in permission lists
anymore, but a SID instead. You can find out the corresponding name by
looking up the SID in a Group report that was generated prior to the
group deletion. |
| Groups with Members |
List of members with a given group scope and type |
| Groups with Members |
List of members of a given class |
| Member Servers and Workstations |
List of all computers with a certain operating system and/or service
pack level (such as which are still running Windows XP with SP1) |
| Member Servers and Workstations |
List of disabled computer accounts |
| Member Servers and Workstations |
List of computer accounts which where created and/or modified after
a certain date & time |
| Member Servers and Workstations |
List of old computer accounts (the ones that haven't set password
for over 30 days) |
| Member Servers and Workstations |
List of computer accounts who have subordinate objects |
| Member Servers and Workstations |
List of computer accounts who have a SID history |
| ACLs |
List of objects a given security principal has permission to (and
what kind of permission), not including permissions that come from a
group membership |
| ACLs |
List of all Deny ACEs |
| Sites |
List of sites with a given site option, such as Universal Group
Membership Caching enabled |
| Sites with Subnets |
List of subnets of a given site (along with the description and
location texts) |
| Site Links |
List of site links that have change notification enabled |
| Site Links |
List of site link replication intervals |
| Site Links with Sites |
List of sites connected to a given site link, or vice versa |
| Connection Objects |
List of any manual connection objects |
| Object Counts |
Domains with most users and computer accounts |
| Domain Controllers |
List of all domain controllers with a certain operating system and/or service
pack level (such as which are still running Windows 2000, and if they
are running SP4) |
| Domain Controllers |
List of global catalog servers |
| Domain Controllers |
List of global catalog servers that are also infrastructure masters |
| Domain Controllers |
List of intersite topology generators |
| Domain Controllers |
List of application partitions of each domain controller, or which
domain controller hosts a given application partition |
| Extended Rights |
Does the forest contain any custom extended rights that some applications or services have added |
| Extended Rights |
When was the forest installed, when was it upgraded to any new version (such as Windows Server 2003 or 2008),
when was Exchange installed |
|
Property Sets |
Does the forest contain any custom property sets that some applications or services have added |
|
Property Sets with Attributes |
Which attributes actually belong to a property set that you see in the permission list of some object |
