The only "free" reporting tool I know of is the SQL Reporting tools. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=108C2B01-2CC9-4A84- A669-EB22533FA5E2&displaylang=en
I wouldn't call that free however :) Low cost? I would say that promodag would be my reporting tool of choice if given the opportunity. Certainly one of the best out there and (historically) reasonably priced. http://www.promodag.com/ Outside of that, you would want to tie into your management solution if you have one. If not, it might be easier to roll your own solution. Accounts? I'd say Joe's Joeware tools would be useful there. Active? That's a tougher call because often you'll need to crawl the event logs or the store ojects, else rely on the active directory account activity to indicate whether or not the user is using Exchange (if the AD account is active, assume the Exchange account is as well sort of thing). Again, Joe's tools would make that pretty easy to come up with if you allow the last bit. Used how many times would require historical storage of data. How much do you want that information? I mean really, how useful is that to you? If you really really want it, you'll have to hook into the monitoring solution (optimal way to do it) to gather that information because that data will exist in the store and the DC's (you could pull it from the store for generalization, but for more detailed access information you'll have to pull from the DC's and the Exchange server itself; that's more overhead as well). Storage sizes? I haven't looked to see if Joe's tools would pull that information or not, but there are examples of scripts to walk the stores via CDOEXM (ducks for cover) that can be used to gather and forward that information to a db somewhere. Microsoft has a script on their site as well. In the end, you might be able to stitch something together, or you may want to look at the investment in terms of the other solutions above. Hope that's helpful. Al -----Original Message----- From: Douglas M. Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas M. Long Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:28 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: OT: Exchange reporting tool Does anyone know of any FREE Exchange reporting tools? How many accounts ? How many are active, used how many times, average storage and all that? List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
