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Does anyone know of any AD management suites that do global security group usage reporting?

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Server 2003 R2, Active Directory Management
Greetings -

I am looking for product suggestions to help me with Active Directory management in my enterprise.  I know there are a lot of 3rd party suites out there with tons of functionality but I'm interested in what people have found to be the best ones.

I'm wondering if these mangement suites can help with problems like this:

I know my infrastructure has groups that are stale and not being used and I'm trying to figure out the best way to filter those out and eliminate them.  If I have a thousand security groups and a bunch of file servers, I would like to be able to generate a report that shows me where those groups are applied in permissions lists, which groups aren't being used at all, etc.  

Any guidance you can provide on management suites and this problem in particular would be wonderful...  Thanks!
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Question Asked By: amendala
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