subject: Essentials Of Active Directory Reports [print this page] Active Directory (AD) reports are essential to the system administrator because they help him to know the current and updated status of Active Directory objects. Developing AD reports can be the toughest challenge for the system administrator especially in the large network. The administrator may need to visit every computer within the network to generate the detailed report about the activity and status of the Active Directory objects, such as users, computers, groups, printers, etc.
Manually creating AD reports consumes significant time of the system administrator. Moreover, it is very tedious and error prone to manually generate AD reports. Through Active Directory reports, the system administrator can collect following information about the Active Directory objects:
Total number of the organizational units available in the selected domain
Details of the organizational units that are linked with group policy objects
Details of the recently created organizational units
Total number of the computers available in the selected domain
Details of the domain controllers
Details of the computers that are currently active
Details of the computers that are currently inactive
Details of the users available in the selected domain
Details of the inactive users
Details of the users whose accounts are disabled
Details of the users whose passwords are expired
List of the users whose passwords will never expire
Details of the users who cannot change their passwords
Details of the group policy objects
Collecting aforementioned information on regular basis is must for the system administrator to effectively manage Windows Active Directory. Chily Active Directory Management and Reporting a unique tool to generate AD reports helps the system administrator to automatically generate more than 65 AD reports.
Using Chily Active Directory Management and Reporting, the system administrator can generate report in just a single mouse click. The software enables the system administrator to generate AD reports in both tabular and graphical formats.
Chily Active Directory Management and Reporting not only enables the system administrator to generate Active Directory reports but also allows him to customize the generated reports. With the help of this amazing software, the administrator can even print the reports. In addition, the reports can be saved in various formats, such as .txt, .pdf, .csv, .html, and .rtf. The saved reports can be used for future reference.
