Admin Report Kit for Active Directory (ARKAD) has been updated and its latest version has been released for the benefit of the Windows users and administrators. Given below is a brief on the important features of this update. The latest version – 8.5 offers users of ARKAD a facility to compare reports, i.e. two reports […]

Accounts Search feature using Power Search to locate Users / Groups / Computers in Active Directory Choose a domain and domain controller to search for a particular object (User/Group/ Computer). Invoke the ‘Accounts Search’ wizard, choose the desired object (User or Group or Computer) and specify filter criteria. Figure #1: Select the desired object & […]

Power Search Permission Selection View: Common tasks displayed Figure #1: Power Search –Common Tasks in Permission Selection Account Selection View: Added new features: Include / Exclude built-in security principals Include Group membership of accounts Filter accounts based on Account status – Inactive, Disabled, unknown & Expired Set Inactive account status with customized ‘Last Logon’ threshold […]

A glimpse of the new Power Search feature The new “Power search” feature enables you to perform granular and incisive search and analysis of permissions in your Active Directory. You can perform granular search on the AD objects permissions with efficient query definitions. The scope of the search can also be specified within the Active […]

Vyapin’s Audit solution for Active Directory helps you to take complete control over your auditing and reporting needs for your entire Active Directory. Vyapin’s solution lets you audit not only your entire AD configuration but also audit all the changes that occur over a period of time in your AD. Vyapin provides two product solutions […]

Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) supports the concept of nesting groups, or adding groups to other groups. Nesting groups can help to reduce the number of permissions that has to be given to key individuals, or to vital groups. Effectively nesting groups in a multi domain environment reduces the network traffic between the domains […]

Our much anticipated major release of ARK for Active Directory (ARKAD) version 7.0 is finally here with the following new features included, ARKAD is now available in two editions: Standard and Advanced. Click here to know the differences. Custom LDAP Queries: Allows the user to create their own Quick Reports to search only the specified […]

The primary objective of having individual user accounts and computers clubbed as ‘Groups’ in Active Directory registry is to simplify the administration overhead involved in managing numerous Active Directory objects. With Groups, it is easy for the IT administrators to define policies for similar objects and manage them under a common schema. However, monitoring the […]

Managing an increasingly scalable Active Directory registry and monitoring the numerous user accounts and their attributes is almost a nightmare to the IT administrators. With Active Directory being the central repository of information without any native tools for advanced reporting , it is almost impossible for administrators to retrieve information about individual user accounts within […]

Our much anticipated major release of Admin Report Kit for Active Directory (ARKAD) version 6.2 is finally here with the following new features included, AD Summary Reports: ARKAD now comes up with the ability to report object-specific significant information in a powerful summarized view. AD Summary reports displays summarized vital information about Domains, Organizational Units, […]

Forests are at the top of the Active Directory hierarchy. Forests comprise within themselves one or more domain trees (independent or interdependent) administered by a common schema. Usually a networking infrastructure contains in it a Forest at the top level. The objects within the Forests are controlled by the Forest Root Domain, created initially when […]

Last-Logon attribute is one of the non-replicated attributes in Active Directory Domain Services, which means that each domain controller in a domain holds its own copy of the attribute, likely with different values. Similarly each Domain Controller in a domain stores different values as computers’ Last-Logon date and time. To access the latest logon time […]

Consider the following scenario: There are two domains in a forest with different namespaces namely SPACENET (SPACENET.local) and OtherDomain (OtherDomain.local). Let us assume that SPACENET is the domain that needs to access resources in OtherDomain. In order to allow domain users from SPACENET to access resources in the domain OtherDomain, we need to add SPACENET’s […]

A user may be assigned to multiple groups in an Active Directory organization. A group member may have membership in other groups in the same domain (or) in a different domain within the same forest (or) in a different domain in a different forest. An in-depth user/group membership report must include all the groups that […]