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.
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
Link | March 24th, 2009 at 9:35 am
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.
Link | March 27th, 2009 at 11:18 am
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
Link | April 22nd, 2009 at 2:05 am
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,
Link | April 26th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Shariq Sheikh | Port 389 » Blog Archive » ADRAP Scoping Tool wrote:
[...] Get white papers regarding Active Directory Risk Assessment Program [...]
Link | July 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Hi Shariq,
I was searching about reports generated from ADST and came across your site. I have reports in XML files but not able to understand exactly the contents in these:
1) so only these XML files are generated as reports or we can change this type while running the tool to some other format like excel etc?
2) How can i get the more readable and simple reports?
Please advice.
Ash.
Link | March 17th, 2010 at 3:18 am
Hi Ash, Sorry about the late reply, those XML files are only what the actual report gets generated from. The actual prettily formatted report is the HTML file.
Link | March 31st, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Hello, we had the AD health assessment about a year and a half ago and I still have the files but need to reinstall the tools and don’t have the documentation I wrote up on the install process. Do you know where I could get this? I have a document but it doesn’t talk about how to install it.
Link | September 1st, 2010 at 10:14 am
Hey RicK,
How do i get the final XML report from ADRAP to share with my team to work on the issues.
Report like “Critical” “Major” “Minor” alerts in XML sheet to present it to management & provide them periodic status or something.
please share some steps as iam working on it from last one month…..
Link | November 14th, 2011 at 2:12 am