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 […]

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 […]

Information Technology Audits have been made mandatory as it is now requisite for many organizations to keep track of users’ access to critical information assets. IT audit systems and procedures must broadly address the following requirements or objectives: maintain data integrity safeguard information assets allow organizational goals or objectives to be achieved effectively use resources […]

One of the most common scenarios in SharePoint migration is the migration of File shares and folders from various sources – file servers, desktops and other storage devices. While the need for migrating files and folders is quite common, the task of getting this accomplished becomes very complex if there are a large number of […]

NTFS Permissions reports on Files, Folders and Shares using Admin Report Kit for Windows Enterprise. There are several powerful features available in Admin Report Kit for Windows Enterprise to generate reports on NTFS permissions on files and folders residing in servers and workstations across multiple domains in the network. All reports may be scheduled and […]

Businesses using Microsoft SharePoint technologies host loads of information that are constantly created, modified, accessed and processed by its users. SharePoint servers store this information in what are called ‘Lists’ that typically resembles an Excel spreadsheet. As you may be aware already, you can import Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet to SharePoint [In your SharePoint site, select […]

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 […]

When migrating data from non-SharePoint sources / legacy applications, it is important to design, organize and manage your list items and properties carefully so that there is minimal rework on your lists and properties without having to redesign the whole content framework. We will discuss below some of the common list management issues in SharePoint […]

Due to major technology differences between IIS6 and IIS7 we have two reporting tools for IIS: 1. Admin Report Kit for IIS v4.x / 5.x / 6.x 2. Admin Report Kit for IIS 7.0 Both the tools have similar features, except that ARK for IIS 7 is a completely new application developed from scratch using .NET. […]

The needs of Systems Management reporting can be broadly classified into: Compliance Reporting (for internal compliance as well as statutory compliance needs such as HIPPA, SOX etc.) Management Reporting (for delivering the reports that management needs – Mainly in the form of Summary reports without getting into the details) Administrative Reporting (for day-to-day administrative tasks […]

In our previous post we had discussed in detail many of the SharePoint document migration challenges. Here we will summarize how Vyapin’s Dockit solution addresses these issues. Dockit for SharePoint 2007 imports folders and documents to SharePoint libraries with the following metadata that typically define the source content: Custom properties defined in the external metadata […]

There are several challenges when migrating documents to Microsoft SharePoint. While these challenges can be overcome, they are a real pain if the migration source, content and file systems are not SharePoint friendly.  We will discuss below some of the common ones here. Folders and files exist in several sources – file shares, web-based sources, network […]

A short note about our Admin Report Kit for Active Directory (ARKAD). This product of ours has evolved over time and has essentially become a single solution for  Administrative reporting, Management reporting and Compliance reporting such as SOX and HIPAA. The latest version includes a broad range of built-in reports that pretty much cover everything […]