Active Directory Risk Assessment Program

02/7/2008

What was previously the Micrsoft Active Directory Health Check Program is now the Active Directory Risk Assessment Program (ADRAP).

“Microsoft ADRAP provides critical insight into the health of your directory services. Microsoft’s own experience internal engineers utilize our own IT department’s tool to take a snapshot of your production Active Directory (AD) environment”.

Under ADRAP the new program/utility is called Active Directory Snapshot tool (ver 5.0.1) that you install in your environment to run the analysis prior to having the Microsoft’s internal engineer coming out to do the assessment and recommendation for the cleanups/fixes. Our ADRAP project is due to take place in July this year, I am told we were heavily benefited last year by this program and we made several improvements in our AD infrastructure.

Note that the ADST is a diagnostic tool, not a monitoring tool. Thus it is not intended as a replacement for a enterprise class monitoring solution such as MOM, or System Center Operation Manager. There are some requirements for this program, for details take a look at the attached white papers.

ADRAP Datasheet v1.0

ADRAP Datasheet v1.5

There are 5 comments in this article:

  1. 24/03/2009Azgar Mohammad say:

    Hi Sheik

    I have a small query, I was working on ADST Tools from Past 1 to 2 years and its a wonderfull tool for AD Diagnostics.
    The Tool Generates the Report in different XML files. Is there any Way that we can upload this into Excel sheet for easy presentation or records to have a report in single file.
    Thanks for your Support in Advance

    Azgar

  2. 27/03/2009Rick say:

    Hi Azgar, The report is actually generated as HTML file. However XML file is what this HTML file loads the information from. The output HTML is pretty handy for presentation purposes.

  3. 22/04/2009Fawad Hussain say:

    Salaamalakum Mr. Shariq
    Iam working as a system Administrator for a small organisation which have around 120 users.
    Network structure is windows 2003 AD, Exchange 2003 and ISA 2004. I did not use any monitoring or any kind of AD/Exchange health cheakup tools, but as our company is growing up i want to use some AD/Exchange health cheakup tools/software. So can you suggest me any tool.
    Thankyou
    Fawad Hussain

  4. 26/04/2009Rick say:

    Hi Fawad, (WS)
    For Active Directory, I would recommend NetPro Directory Analyzer (NetPro is now owned by Quest Software). For Exchange, if you are on 2007 version then use the built-in Exchange BPA and Health Check tool.

    Thanks,

  5. 20/07/2009Shariq Sheikh | Port 389 » Blog Archive » ADRAP Scoping Tool say:

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