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No agent installation. Information is collected, processed and displayed, all on the same machine where ARKAD is installed. Filter unwanted fields and select the desired fields to view. Perform simple wildcard-based string search and filter to get a smaller subset of information. Apply advanced powerful conditional queries to get specific subsets of information. Apply Built-in Filters that allow users to quickly select and generate reports. These predefined Filters are based on some of the common tasks in Systems management reporting. Sort on the various fields of information. Prepare and Print tabular management Reports. Users will be able to precisely define, view, print and present reports about the Microsoft Active Directory. Customize reports for display and print. View information about different Active Directory Domains in their own display windows with objects displayed in an Explorer-style view. Objects are arranged in a hierarchy for each Active Directory domain in the enterprise. Organize information about each object and its various properties into separate Tab Views. Information in each Tab view is organized in the same way as they are organized within the Active Directory. Security - Access control information View both standard and extended rights along with owner, Inherited and Apply Onto information. Identify what permissions Users and Groups have been assigned on objects. Using the Inherited information, identify which ACEs have been added explicitly. Additionally, using the Apply Onto information identify which ACEs are enforced by each object    Auditing information Identify what type of access has been audited for a User and/or Group on objects and to which objects it has been applied, along with their Inherited information. Using the Inherited information identify which type of access has been set to be audited explicitly. Auditing information is available for all objects that ARKAD reports on.   Delegated Permissions View the tasks that have been delegated to a user and/or group on Domains, Sites and Organizational Units (reports tasks delegated using the Delegation of Control Wizard and also the tasks that have been delegated manually).   Domain controllers information View domain controllers and their corresponding FSMO role(s), along with their OS and service pack information.   Trust relationships information View trusted and trusting domains and their corresponding trust attributes for a domain.   User additional password information View password last set date and password expiration date for User accounts in a domain.   Disabled computer accounts View the Enabled/Disabled status of computer accounts in a domain.   Domain and Forest functional levels For Windows 2003 domains, view Domain and Forest functional levels. For Windows 2000 domains view Domain functional level.   User Account Options View all User Account Options User Logon information View Last Logon of User accounts in a domain.   Group Membership information View users, groups, contacts and their corresponding membership information including nested groups information. Identify members with their SID and their Group's SID.   Group Policy Links View GPOs linked to Sites, Domains and Organizational Units along with Block policy inheritance, No override and disabled settings. Additionally, view the GPOs linked to a selected DC along with their link order and applied order. View Deleted Objects  View Deleted OUs, Computer Accounts, Users, Groups, Contacts, GPOs and WMI Filters in a domain. Custom Reports Create your own reports with custom selected fields and report criteria. Find, Filter and Customize data Powerful Filter and Customize options to track and report only the desired information across different objects and their properties. Quick Filter – Allows you to quickly filter data based on search strings and dates. Wildcard characters may be applied. For example, all rows of data pertaining to “Administrators” may be filtered by a simple string filter “*admin*” across all fields or a single field. A simple string filter using “Full Control” as the search string will display all objects having “Full Control” permission. Advanced Filter – Allows the user to select columns to display, perform advanced query based filtering using Field names and their values and Save the filter configuration for future use. Selecting and applying a saved filter will apply the filter and directly produce the desired subset of data. Find – A simple string-based Find operation highlights all cells containing the string. Especially useful in determining string occurrences and their frequencies with respect to the entire displayed set of data. For example, highlight all users having “Full Control” permission in the displayed list of users and their permissions. Insight tool  Reports the Summary and Detailed information based on "frequency of occurrence (Counts)".  Export Reports using the Power Export Wizard Flexible Export feature to export reports from ARKAD to MS-Access database / XML / HTML / Comma Separated Values (CSV) file format. Data Exportable into MS-Access database for archival purposes. Reports may be scheduled for export at different intervals of time – daily, monthly, weekly etc.  Preview and Print Report Flexible print preview and print options to print the reports from ARKAD to any local / network printer. New GPO and WMI Filter reports.    Enhanced Group Members report with membership infomation of nested groups.    Forest-wide view of domain information (DCs and their FSMO role(s), functional levels etc.) and Sites information for all Domains in a forest.    Create your own reports with custom selected fields and report criteria.    Insight Reports that give highly useful and interesting Statistics and History information about Objects.    View trust relationships.    View password last set date and password expiry date for Users. Enhanced Security and Auditing reports with "Inherited" information.    View deleted objects in the domain - OUs, Users, Groups, Computers and Contacts.      View GUID and SID of Users and Groups. For the computer running ARKAD Hardware: Intel Pentium III or higher processor,  128MB of RAM, 15 MB disk  Operating System: Windows 2003 (SP2) / Windows XP (SP 2.0) / Windows 2000 (SP 4.0) Software: MDAC v2.5/2.6/2.8. For the computers reported by ARKAD   Windows 2000/ Windows 2003 running Active Directory. Please refer to question #7 in FAQ for more information.