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When Active Directory is under threat, there's only one team of heroes who can save the day

Too many tools, too much complexity, not much visibility... Managing Active Directory is hard making it increasingly vulnerable to attacks and downtime. But native tools are limited and underpowered.

Luckily, Quest has a team of software heroes who can prevent those headaches that come when managing an Active Directory.

Empowering users to migrate easily and restructure their Active Directory, Migration Manager for Active Directory ensures that migrated and coexistence users retain secure access to critical resources when data is moved across servers.

From pre-migration analysis through setup, object migration, resource updating and post-migration clean-up, Migration Manager offers a straightforward migration route. Whether an organisation is restructuring to meet security standards or undergoing an acquisition or merger, Migration Manager provides the features necessary to meet their changing needs with minimal risk and disruption for users.

Benefits:

  • Ensures ZeroIMPACT on users and help desk
  • Provides users with continued access to workstations, resources and email, regardless of their migration status
  • Updates permissions and resources automatically
  • Synchronises Active Directory objects between source and target, lowering administrative overhead
  • Provides the visibility and reporting to control the entire migration project
  • Mirrors your Active Directory production environment to a test environment to test live impact of migration processes
  • Saves time by not having to reconfigure shares on the target file servers
  • Ensures security by migrating NTFS permission

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Do you know of administrators struggling to keep up with requests to create, change or remove access to Active Directory? Thankfully, help has arrived in the form of ActiveRoles to protect AD data simply and securely.

ActiveRoles delivers automated tools for user and group account management that overcome the native shortcomings of AD, meaning users can do their job faster.

Benefits:

  • Protects critical Active Directory data by strictly enforcing policies, eliminating unregulated access to resources, and regulating administrative privileges through a least-privilege model
  • Automates account creation and deletion for secure and efficient user and group management in AD and AD-joined systems, as well as Exchange, Lync, SharePoint and Office 365
  • Provides all tools necessary to securely and efficiently manage AD and overcome its native shortcomings, reducing IT workload and errors
  • Reduces Active Directory administrative costs by giving help desk personnel and data owners an intuitive, universally accessible console for Active Directory
  • Eliminates security loopholes with tools and processes that generate audit-ready reports
  • Deploys in weeks, for rapid time-to-value
  • Delivers a standardised change approval process for AD administration, so you know who made what change and when
  • Offers an integrated solution with a modular architecture, so you can meet your business needs today and in the future

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Managing and securing Active Directory for thousands of users, hundreds of servers and multiple locations can be complex and overwhelming. Out-of-sync performance problems on domain controllers is just one of the problems users have that can cause wide reaching effects, including system downtime and directory unavailability.

Spotlight on Active Directory solves these issues and provides organisations with the information they need to resolve issues before it damages user productivity. It can be deployed quickly and easily - in fact, users can get useful diagnostic data and next-step suggestions within minutes.

Features:

  • Quickly identify and prevent problems with proactive, real-time diagnostic information and statistics
  • Improve system uptime through real-time visual indication of resource bottlenecks on domain controllers, drill-down capability and expert resolution advice
  • Quickly identify and resolve issues with more than 100 customisable tests and automated repairs that replace time-consuming manual troubleshooting
  • Get real-time alerts and expert resolution suggestions for critical Active Directory conditions, including issues with replication, Operations Masters, DNS functions, DCs, Global catalogues and application partitions
  • See a consolidated view of diagnostic data and performance information through integration with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and System Center Operations Manager 2007

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Issues with your customer’s directory can result in unplanned, costly service disruptions and business crippling network downtime. Organisations need to be notified in real time of any critical changes being made to their Active Directory.

Change Auditor tracks, audits, reports and alerts your customers on the changes that impact a directory - without the expense of turning on native auditing, completing all key configuration changes in real time.

Benefits:

  • Installs in minutes with fast event collection for immediate analysis into Windows environments
  • Enables enterprise-wide auditing and compliance from a single client
  • Eliminates unknown security concerns, ensuring continuous access to applications, systems and users by tracking all events and those changes related to specific incidents
  • Reduces security risks in seconds with real-time alerts to any device for immediate response, in or out of the office
  • Strengthens internal controls with protection from unwanted changes and limits control of authorised users
  • Drives availability by enabling proactive troubleshooting for account lockouts
  • Reduces the performance drag on servers and saves storage resources by collecting events without the use of native auditing
  • Streamlines compliance to corporate and government policies and regulations, including SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, SAS 70 and more
  • Turns information into intelligent, in-depth forensics for auditors and management

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Human error and hardware/software failures can easily corrupt Active Directory, system configurations or Group Policy data. This can result in objects being modified or deleted by mistake and faulty scripts can overwrite attributes meaning unplanned system downtime and possible days of lost user productivity.

Recovery Manager for Active Directory enables users to automate backups, quickly compare a backup to pinpoint changes and instantly recover the desired data. This time-saving solution reduces costs for organisations and increases office productivity.

Features:

  • AD recycle bin - Use a wizard-based console to direct you through a streamlined recovery process, effectively creating a graphical Active Directory recycle bin
  • Online, granular restore - Restore directory objects without the need to restart domain controllers. This eliminates downtime and any impact on users who are logged on to the network
  • Comparison reporting - Use reports to compare the online state of AD with its backup and highlight changes made to the directory data since the backup
  • Comprehensive recovery options - Take advantage of the only solution that restores any object in AD, including users, groups, computers and organisational units
  • Attribute-level restore - Restore individual attributes, such as account settings, group memberships and binary attributes, even when the object itself have not been deleted

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Complete Active Directory management that increases security and productivity with ease

Windows-network administrators must increasingly manage critical Microsoft Active Directory environments more quickly and with fewer staff. Doing "more with less" increases the likelihood of accidental changes to AD objects, configurations, and Group Policy data that can raise your risk of hardware and software failure.

Active Administrator is an extensive Active Directory management solution that allows users to control auditing, security, recovery and health for Active Directory from a single integrated console.

Benefits:

  • Improves regulatory compliance enforcement of internal policies with comprehensive audit trails, access control and reporting
  • Tightens security through simplified, standardised security management, elimination of over privileged users, and consistent delegation of AD administration
  • Maintains business continuity by delivering alerts on AD and GPO changes to reduce network and user downtime and by ensuring rapid recovery from accidental changes, deletions and administrative errors
  • Increases IT efficiency by simplifying routine AD management tasks to give you more time for business critical tasks
  • Ensures Active Directory health by monitoring replication and domain controller status and performance, and by automating database maintenance

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