GALsync

If you have several Active Directory forests and are looking forward to share information within Exchange Global Address List, then you may be facing loads of hassles in addition to wasting your precious time. Well, do away with all the troubles and perform the task effectively, you might be searching through various websites to get an easy and cost effective solution to this problem. Nevertheless, you can take a break from your search and try out GALsync 3.0 that serves the purpose efficiently. The program supports you in sharing the Exchange mail-enabled objects included in your Active Directory forest with several other forests. By supporting object sharing, it helps users from individual or both messaging organizations to easily access the information relating to users and groups of opposite Active Directory.

The GALsync supports integrating several Active Directories with Exchange organizations, and sharing all or subsets of entire group and user information with Outlook/Exchange users included within Global Address List. Using the application, you can select entire objects or subsets of the objects for exporting them to other Active Directory. The program functions with Outlook/Exchange and considers only mail-enabled objects. Additionally it allows you to exclude objects using a configurable phrase within configurable custom attribute. It further supports Multiple-Domains as it is cross-domain capable, and facilitate the selection and exporting of objects in any domain present in your forest. In addition it even let you choose Transmission Protocol that helps you in integrated handing-over the chosen information to other Active Directory using Windows Share, SMTP, or FTP. Along with this, it facilitates secure data transmission between various Active Directory, by encrypting it with a secure key to ensure that no unauthorized person can access or read object’s details during transmission. Moreover, Log files are created to help you track the activity taking place.

GALsync application makes it easier for you to share your email-enabled objects from one Active Directory forest to another. The program, for its comprehensive feature-set and excellent performance, is given 4 rating points.

Usability scenarios
* Company Splitted Active Directory model
Your company has one internal Active Directory and one separate Active Directory for company's sales representatives. You want all user objects and groups of the sales reps AD to be visible to your internal Outlook/Exchange users (using the Global Address List). Vice versa: You want all sales reps have access to information of a subset of the internal users.
* Company take-over
Because of a company take-over you have to integrate different Active Directories and Exchange organizations. You have to share all or subsets of all user and group information for Outlook/Exchange users in the Global Address List.
*Company & Partners
Your company has a partner company and you want to share some user and group information for Outlook/Exchange users in the Global Address List.
*Migration
Your company wants to migrate to a new Exchange organization. You have to ensure that all migrated users may send messages to users in the original organization and vice versa.
Features included
*Choose the objects you need
Select all objects or subsets of objects to export to the other AD.
While GAL Sync is used for Outlook/Exchange it will only consider mail-enabled objects.
*Multiple-Domains
Select objects in any of the domains in your forest to export. GAL Sync is cross-domain capable.
*Choose your Transmission Protocol
GALsync allows you an integrated handing-over of the selected information to the other Active Directory by using a Windows Share, by FTP or by SMTP.
*Secure Data Transmission
Data are transmitted encrypted between the different Active Directories. So no one can read your object's details during the transmission from source to target.
*Managed Code
GAL Sync is written in managed code using .NET framework 2.0. It can run on 32 or 64bit Windows platforms.
*Log Files
Log files are created so you can track exactly what happened.