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Vyapin announces the release of its new product Active Directory Change Tracker version 1.0, a powerful tool to track, analyze, and report all changes made to your AD configuration.

Active Directory Change Tracker audits all changes made to your Active Directory by periodically collecting only the changed data, reporting what exactly changed, along with the new and old values, when the change was made, where the change happened in your Active Directory. Active Directory Change Tracker also determines who made the change by looking up the Security Event logs of your audit-enabled Active Directory.

For further information about Vyapin’s Active Directory Change Tracker version 1.0, you can view the product information and download a 15-day trial copy from the product
home page.

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 and simplifies the network administration in a domain tree.

Maintaining more number of nested groups is a real pain, because without our knowledge some of the nested groups may get looped. Say for an example there are four groups in an Active Directory Domain like Developers, Quality Checkers, Technical Advisors and Technical Leaders.

In the above scenario, Developers, Quality Checkers and Technical Leaders forming a group in a loop in an ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers). In a large environment, it is very difficult to find the number of groups that form a loop in a domain.

Our latest version of Admin Report Kit for Active Directory (ARKAD) has got the necessary features to view a number of nested groups, and a number of groups that are forming a loop in a domain. The following figure displays the groups that are forming a loop in ‘SPACENET’ domain.

For further information about ARKAD, you can view the product information and download a 15-day trial copy from the product
home page.

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 domain partition, and searches can be narrowed down to a single container/OU object. Users can also specify their own LDAP queries.
• Ability to manage list of Active directory Domains in a single place to generate reports for various domains.
• Ability to connect to other forest domains with alternate credentials and also save the credentials for later use across application sessions.

For further information on ARK for Active Directory (ARKAD), visit our product home page at http://www.vyapin.com/products/active-directory-audit/active-directory-reports.htm