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Extracting intelligence from Message Tracking logs in Exchange is now made easy with Vyapin’s “Exchange Message Log Reporter”

An Overview

Vyapin’s new product – “Exchange Message Log Reporter” is a powerful solution for Exchange Message tracking and log reporting addressing data collection for all or selective mail transactions by reading the message log for the administrative group and Exchange organization. The information includes Mail transaction Date & Time, Client IP, Client Host Name, Server IP, Server Host Name, Source Context, Connector ID, Source, Event ID, Internal Message ID, Message ID, Recipient Address, Recipient Status, Total Bytes, Recipient Count, Related Recipient Address, Reference, Message Subject, Sender Address, Return Path, Message Info, Directionality, Tenant ID, Original Client IP and Original Server IP.

Features

Built-in reports:

The useful built-in reports provide detailed information on all or specific users’ mail transactions in a more easy, and customized manner.

Data Collector Wizard:

The application uses a Data Collector to collect the mail transaction data from exchange log files with options to collect data immediately for a given date range or later at specified time intervals.

Data Collection history:

This wizard provides the ability to view past data collection history from exchange servers.

Informative reports:

• Captures data about all and specific mail transactions for the desired servers
• Enables to track - Who sends What to Whom & When (given the date range)
• Assists in analyzing the mail content’s importance and regulate unnecessary traffic in the exchange server environment.
• Helps to measure the server’s performance

Task Manager:

Run the reports either immediately or at scheduled intervals

Report Views:

The reports can be viewed with the custom fields grouped by or ordered on any desired field. New views can be created or existing views can be modified or deleted.

Report options:

Various reporting options such as Find, Filter & Refresh are some of the other features included in this new product.

• Find – Any data can be searched in the report output using the ‘Find’ keyword
• Refresh – Reload the current information with this option.
• Filter – Sender mails, Recipients mails, Distribution groups/lists can be applied with report criteria to filter the information

Delivery options:

Report delivery options are some of the interesting aspects of this application

• Export – The reports can be exported to any file format (TIFF / MDB / XLS / CSV / PDF / HTML).
• Email – Different users can receive the reports via email.
• Print – Redirecting reports to printers is also possible as required.

Here are some illustrations to experience the application better.

Screen Shot #1: Built-in reports

Screen Shot #2: Report options – Filter

Screen Shot #3: Export option

Screen Shot #4: Print option

Screen Shot #5: Email option

Screen Shot #6: Report Views

Screen Shot #7: The Data collector wizard

Screen Shot #8: The Data Collection history

Screen Shot #9: The Schedule task manager

Screen Shot #10: Task History wizard

• Collect all or selective mail transactions with powerful built-in reports
• The data collected can be reported in different views
• Apply Filter options to screen the mail transactions
• Various report delivery options such as Email, Print & Export
• Track unnecessary mail transactions by analyzing the message traffic in the Exchange environment
• Archive data collection for future analysis
• Data collection can be done immediately or at scheduled intervals using the Schedule task manager

If you are interested, please follow the link below to download a 15-day trial version of Exchange Message Log Reporter software.
http://www.vyapin.com/products/exchange-message-log-reporter/exchange-message-log-reporter.htm

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 Directory. Options to search default permissions and selectively assigned permissions gives the ability to search extensively.

Let’s take a look at the systematic approach of using the Power search wizard

Fig #1: Power Search tool bar

This is the Power search tool bar and choose the ‘Permissions’ option

Step #1: Select the Domain

Step #2: Select the Access Control Entry

Step #3: Specify the scope

Step #4: Select the Accounts

Step #5: Selection Summary

This wizard shows a summary of the search settings based on your selected options during the systematic approach.

Step #6: Search results

The Power search manager

Using this wizard you can create, edit, delete, view and run any Power Search task

Fig #3: Power Search Manager Wizard

Fig #4: Power search settings

Understand the Power search feature better, with few sample scenarios

Scenario #1: Members having ‘Reset Password’ ACE’s

Scenario #2: Members who can delete Organizational Units

Scenario #3: Members who can delete or create users & groups

Scenario #4: Members who have Full control ACE’s

Fig 2: Report settings of ’Full control’ ACE

Scenario #5: Members who are authorized to create or delete tasks in the AD environment

Scenario #6: Members who can alter AD objects

Scenario #7: Members who have extended rights

Scenario #8: Search those ACE’s that have impact on your AD security & integrity

The most interesting news is that, there is one more fascinating feature about the Delegation control wizard, which now conducts an implicit search for the explicitly assigned ACE’s when a particular delegated task is chosen. In other words, you may search for the permissions that are assigned by default while delegating rights to the OU accounts and containers.

Scenario #9: Members who have ‘Reset Password’ ACE as the delegated task

Fig3: Report settings of ‘Reset password’ ACE

Scenario #10: Members who have explicit Allow/Deny non- inherited ACE’s on OU objects

Fig:4: Report settings of ACE type ‘Explicit Allow’

Explicit Deny

Fig 5: Report settings of ACE type ‘Explicit deny’

Fig #6: Delegation Control Wizard

A quick recap of the “Power Search” feature

	Search for unauthorized access
	Find out the access permissions of members in the Active Directory
	Know their authorized actions
	Quickly search members who can read objects in the confidential OUs and containers
	Track certain unauthorized users and put a stop to security and integrity issues caused by them
	Track those unnoticed deleted/disabled accounts, dummy SID’s, outdated users and their permissions

If you are interested in exploring these new features, please follow the link below to download a 30-day trial version of ARK for Active Directory software.
http://www.vyapin.com/products/active-directory-audit/active-directory-reports.htm

We have released a new major version (v5.0) of SPListX software with the notion of keeping pace with the growing IT trends of Microsoft. This new version now supports Microsoft SharePoint online in Office 365. Also, we have included one more benefit of exporting the SharePoint list items/libraries using SharePoint Views.

SPListX’s add on benefit for SharePoint Online

Vyapin’s new version of SPListX software adds on to your benefits of cloud service (SharePoint Online). You can now export the SharePoint list items from your SharePoint Online to the local file shares just as before by just one mouse click.

Screen Shot #1:

SharePoint Views feature

Unlike the earlier versions, you have now provisions to exclusively export the list items / documents by specifying the SharePoint Views to export to the local file shares.

Screen Shot #2:

You have options to export list items from either “All” or “Default” or “Specific” custom views based on the export requirements.

Screen Shot #3:

If you are interested in exploring these new features, please follow the link below to download a 30-day trial version of SPListX software.

http://www.vyapin.com/products/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010/splistx/sharepoint-2010-list-export.htm