Documenting Active Directory Infrastructure the Easy Way


	Documenting Active Directory Infrastructure the Easy Way

fuzzylogic181

2-25-2008 10:42 PM

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fuzzylogic181 says:

Using a couple of free tools to document the AD infrastructure including GPOs.

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From time to time customers ask us what their options are to document their Active Directory environments – site topologies, domains and trusts, where group policies are linked and what their settings are. Until recently we didn’t have an easy way to do this and they were forced to invest a lot of manual labor in creating a map. Today we’ll talk about some free tools we can use to make this task very easy and accurate. 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