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The much anticipated release of SharePoint 2010 is on the cards. It’s almost official that the final cut would be released by June 2010. The beta version is already out and is certainly creating a buzz among the business community. The latest version that is coming up has flexible deployment options and has kindled our excitement as well. Several customers have inquired about our products’ compatibility with the latest version of SharePoint. Our answer to them is yes, we have all our products ready for the next big release of SharePoint.

Our reporting tool for SharePoint, ARKSP is ready for its major upgrade for the SharePoint 2010 release and should be up and running by next week. DocKIT, our flagship document migration solution is to follow suit with its upgraded version for SharePoint 2010. We have been getting a lot of queries from keen customers about DocKIT’s compatibility with SharePoint 2010 and we are not going to make them wait any further than the first week of Feb 2010. The SharePoint to file system migration solution, SPListX is gearing up for the release with additional ‘Search Criteria’ features, which, the users are going to find it extremely useful in pulling out precise ‘spot-on’ information. Our SharePoint list management solution, SPListM comes out with a beta version by March 2010. XPlica, our solution to your migration needs (from SharePoint to SharePoint libraries) would be the last to be released. We have scheduled it for April 2010. We are on full speed to keep our solutions abreast with the biggest release of SharePoint and to continue helping our customers leverage their SharePoint resources. The beta version of our products has already started to roll out and is being evaluated by some of our renowned customers. We have already started to listen to some excellent feedback from our customers and we are looking forward to keep the momentum going on. The next couple of months are going to be extremely significant for us as we deliver the latest versions to our customers and prospects.
Looking forward to an absorbing month ahead…

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 users as members in the ‘domain local group’ of
OtherDomain.

If any user from the SPACENET domain is a member of ‘domain local group’ of OtherDomain (within the same forest), then the ‘Member Of’ tab for that user will not show that he is a member of ‘domain local group’ of OtherDomain. So, if you would like to know the ‘member of’ details of a particular User in a domain, a comprehensive listing should show all groups the User is a member of, including those groups in other domains that the user is a member of. 

Please see following figures to understand this better.

Active Directory Users and Computers for

‘OtherDomain.local’

Active Directory Users and Computers for ‘SPACENET.local’

If an administrator wants the ‘Member of’ details for users for the entire forest, he needs to view each group’s ‘Members tab’ in the AD console to see whether the specified user is a member of this group. The administrator needs to repeat this step for all domains and all groups in those domains.
 
So, How does ARKAD help show Users ‘Member of’ details for all domains in a forest in a single report view?
 
With the help of Admin Report Kit for Active Directory (ARKAD) you can view the users ‘Member Of’ details for an entire forest. The following image depicts the report generated by ARKAD for the above scenario.