DIY Active Directory Assessment Guide
Over the last 12 years I have lead several Active Directory upgrade, migration and installation projects as an Active Directory consultant in Albany, NY - more than I care to count.
These projects always start with an Active Directory assessment, followed by a full blown project to upgrade, fix or install Active Directory. But now I just want to teach people how to fish. Until now, we have kept this entire process under wraps, like most consulting companies do. In fact, if you do an exact phrase Google search for the term Active Directory assessemnt, most of page 1 is companies offering to do an assessment for your at a cost. But if you scroll down a bit (as of this writing), you will find this post giving you the tools to do it yourself!
At Lucid we have charged several thousand dollars to perform Active Directory assessments for customers of various sizes and industries including state and local government, school districts, health care providers and financial institutions. For some reason, even though we offer a number of services, we always wind up doing a lot of Active Directory projects.
Well, we recently decided to compile my Active Directory assessment tools, templates and other related documents into what I call the DIY Active Directory Assessment Guide. This is so customers and consultants alike can use our proven process to deliver thorough assessments in record time. If after going through everything we have put together from over a dozen years of experience you still want to pay to have it done, that's fine too. But now you will have knowledge on your side and will know what a thorough assessment should look like.
The DIY Active Directory Assessment Guide includes:
- 45 page Customer Assessment Template document with table of contents, appendices and canned verbiage applicable to most environments. Simply plug in your own custom information to save hours of time!
- 52 page full Customer Assessment document from a $10,000 assessment project so you can see how it is done.
- Multi-sheet Visio document templates from actual AD projects (forest / domain structure, OU structure, DFSR structure, active directory sites structure, DNS structure).
- 5 page assessment questionnaire.
- BONUS! Active Directory project plan from a full AD project. Customize to your liking.
- Plus more!
Whether you are a consultant looking to streamline (shorten) the assessment process, or an in house system administrator looking to perform a thorough active directory health and best practices check, this guide is for you. If after going through all of this material, you still need some additional information, simply shoot me a quick email (included in the guide) and I will reply and see how I can help you at no cost to you (just don't bombard me with 1000 emails a day).
So, why would we give something away that is so valuable. Well, we are not exactly giving it away, but we are not trying to get rich off of it either. We are charging only $3.99 for the guide. Again, the focus is to help organizations do this for themselves but we at Lucid recognize how valuable this process is to us. So to balance between giving away our secret sauce and giving back to our Active directory community, we settled on this low price. That's it. Save yourself lots of time and headaches and get this guide today.