How to generate Active Directory Reports

Active Directory reports arm an administrator with updated information about the status of Active Directory objects like users, computers, servers, domains, GPOs, printers, etc. To consistently and effectively manage users’ accounts, users’ accounts password, computers, etc. within a domain, requires updated status of these objects. Only after having the recent information about the Active Directory objects, the administrator can manage those objects. For example, the password of a user has expired and the user does not have permission to reset the password then how the user will login into his/her account. In that situation, the user has to wait until the administrator does not reset the password but for that, the user has to inform the administrator. This process of resetting password may take some time depending on the time spend to inform the administrator about the issue and the time taken by the administrator to manually visit the user’s system and reset the password.

However, if the administrator would be having any software that can help him know that the password of which user is going to be expired on a particular date then a considerable amount of time could be saved. In case, the software is not available, the administrator must manually collect such information on regular basis to flawlessly and timely manage the objects of Active Directory. Though, manually collecting information pertaining status and activities of all Active Directory objects is difficult and time-consuming, it is must to update status. Otherwise, effective and timely management of Active Directory objects become difficult. At that time, the need of the software that can help automatically generating reports about the status of users, computers, printers, etc. comes in effect.

An advanced and comprehensive software like Chily Active Directory Reports provides the administrator a facility to automatically generate more than 65 customizable Active Directory reports. Such a splendid software provides information such as total number of the users available in a domain, password expired users in a domain, accounts of which users will be expired in a particular period, managed and unmanaged computers, GPOs, and printers. Some of the software that facilitate the administrator to keep him updated with full fledged status reports regarding Active Directory objects, also enable him to manage objects from a central location. That is there is no need to manually visit any computer within a domain. All of the tasks like resetting password, unlocking users account, etc. can be done remotely. Apart from viewing the status online, the administrator can also print Active Directory reports. In addition, the reports can be saved in various formats such as TXT, RTF, PDF, CSV, and HTML.