Thanks for sharing your thoughts – quite helpful and appreciated.

On a related note, thought you might like to know that at our organization we use a nifty FREE Microsoft-endorsed tool called Gold Finger for all our AD reporting needs. We first came across it on http://www.activedirsec.com and have been using it for 3 months now.

Gold Finger is developed by a Microsoft partner called Paramount Defenses, and has 300+ inbuilt Active Directory security reports covering 12 management categories, from account management to Trust management. Oh, and its backed by FREE US based technical support.

You can get (download) your own free copy from – http://www.paramountdefenses.com/goldfinger.php.

If you’re into Active Directory, Gold Finger is a must have.

Thanks,
John