Pin Reports to Favorites for One-Click Access

Stop digging through the report tree to find the same five reports you run every day. Right-click any built-in report and pin it to a brand-new ★ Favorites group at the top of the tree. Favorites are saved per domain and persist across restarts.

Per-domain by design. Favorites for corp.example.com are separate from acme.local. Switching domains in the AD Forest tree instantly swaps the Favorites contents — you never see a stale list from a different environment.
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Right-Click → ★ Add to Favorites

Find any built-in report in the report tree (Users, Groups, Computers, OUs, GPOs, Azure, etc.). Right-click the report and choose ★ Add to Favorites.

The report instantly appears in a new ★ Favorites group at the very top of that category's tree — no menu diving, no settings dialog. The original entry stays where it is so you can find it the old way too.

AD Reports Add to Favorites context menu

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Find Your ★ Favorites Group

The ★ Favorites group sits at the very top of the relevant category tree (Users category if it's a user report, Computers if it's a computer report, etc.). Double-click the favorited entry to run it — same behavior as running the original.

AD Reports ★ Favorites group at the top of the tree

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Remove from Favorites

Right-click any favorited report and choose ★ Remove from Favorites. Same menu, opposite direction. It works whether you click the original report in its category or the copy that lives in the ★ Favorites group.

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Persistence and Stale-Safety

  • Persistent across restarts. Favorites are saved per domain in your AD Reports profile and survive restarts of the application or the Windows Scheduler Service.
  • Stale-safe. If a report you favorited gets renamed or removed in a future update, the favorites entry is silently skipped on tree build — no crash, no error popup.
  • Domain-scoped. Each AD Forest domain has its own Favorites list. Switching domains swaps the list automatically.
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Suggested Favorite Sets

A few starter combinations to seed your daily workflow:

  • Weekly cleanup checklist: Stale Computers — Cleanup Candidates · Disabled Users · Empty OUs.
  • Helpdesk daily triage: Locked Out Users · Password Expiring Soon · Recently Created Users.
  • Security review starting set: Shadow Admins · Duplicate SPNs · All Delegation (Unified) · LAPS Coverage.
  • Hybrid identity health: Cloud-Only Privileged Admins · On-Prem Accounts NOT Syncing · UPN Suffix Mismatches (use the dedicated Hybrid Identity page for these).
Questions about Favorites? Please feel free to contact us.
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