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What I’m really impressed with is GoldFinger’s ability to generate up to 225 security reports. These are some of the common ones:<\/p>\n
Account Management Reports
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all enabled domain user accounts<\/li>\n
- List of all domain user accounts created in the last few days<\/li>\n
- List of all domain user accounts that do not require passwords to logon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Exchange Management Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all mail-enabled accounts<\/li>\n
- List of all mailbox-enabled accounts created in the last few days<\/li>\n
- List of all mailbox-enabled accounts for which proxy addresses are specified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Security Group Management Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all security groups<\/li>\n
- List of all security groups that have members<\/li>\n
- List of all security groups for which a manager is specified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Contact Management Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all contacts changed in the last few days<\/li>\n
- List of all contacts for which an office is specified<\/li>\n
- List of all contacts for which direct reports have not been specified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Computer Management Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all domain controllers in a domain<\/li>\n
- List of all domain computer accounts that are trusted for delegation<\/li>\n
- List of all domain computer accounts for which Kerberos name mappings are specified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Group Policy (GPO) Management Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all group policy objects<\/li>\n
- List of all disabled group policy objects<\/li>\n
- List of all group policy objects changed in the last few days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Container Management Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all containers<\/li>\n
- List of all containers changed in the last few days<\/li>\n
- List of all containers for which a description is not specified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Service Connection Point Management Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all service connection points<\/li>\n
- List of all service connection points changed in the last few days<\/li>\n
- List of all service connection points for which DNS service names are specified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Organizational Unit Management Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all organizational units<\/li>\n
- List of all organizational units changed in the last few days<\/li>\n
- List of all organizational units to which GPOs are not explicitly linked<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Active Directory ACL Management Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- List of all AD objects on which a security principal has permissions<\/li>\n
- List of all AD objects on which a security principal has list child permissions<\/li>\n
- List of all AD objects on which a security principal has read permissions permissions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The above are just a few reports out of the over 200 security reports which can be generated by GoldFinger.<\/p>\n
To find out more about how GoldFinger Free Edition can assist you in your AD management and auditing purposes, check out GoldFinger today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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