Sunday, February 7, 2010

ADST and AD Daily health Checks

 Active Directory Snapshot Tool (ADST)

ADST tools is the one like MBSA it checks everything about AD healthchecks.

Below are the complete tools for AD health checks

Test

Frequency

AD Convergence

Daily

DCDiag – General

Daily

FRS Convergence

Daily

Performance Info

Daily

Replication Status

Daily

Account Policies

Weekly

Backup Status

Weekly

Database Info

Weekly

DCDiag – DNS

Weekly

DNSLint

Weekly

DNS Information

Weekly

Event Logs

Weekly

Exchange DSAccess

Weekly

GPOTool

Weekly

IP Information

Weekly

Large Groups

Weekly

OS Information

Weekly

Replication Configuration

Weekly

Site Configuration

Weekly

Subnet Information

Weekly

SYSVOL Information

Weekly

Time Configuration

Weekly

WINS 1B and 1C

Weekly

AD Object Count

Monthly

Forest / Domain Information

Monthly

Machine Account Info

Monthly

Orphaned GPTs

Monthly

Partition ACLs

Monthly

Security Updates

Monthly

Unlinked GPOs

Monthly

User Account Info

Monthly

Account Lockouts

As needed

ADST Dependencies

As needed


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Thanks,

Pablo Picasso  - "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

1 comment:

lauren said...

Although its very brief blog but I must say that its very informative and useful as it covered the listing of tools for AD health checks.Thanks
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