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Welcome to Quest’s Active Directory Availability Center

Active Directory is becoming increasingly critical to many organizations' core business.  As the main access point to numerous business-critical applications, AD downtime has a huge impact on the productivity of company employees.  With over 1,500 organizations using our Active Directory recovery solutions to protect over 14 million AD accounts, Quest is the leader in Active Directory availability worldwide. 

Our AD Availability Center shares our expertise in AD recovery and availability with you. Download an educational guide to the fundamentals of AD recovery, learn about the challenges involved in developing an Active Directory forest recovery process, post your questions in our AD recovery discussion community, get guidance on justifying a comprehensive recovery plan for AD and gain quick access to key Microsoft and 3rd party information on disaster recovery. 

Whether you have an accidental deletion of an OU or your entire forest becomes corrupt from an errant schema extension, Quest provides you the most comprehensive solutions available to keep your Active Directory available 24 x 7.

All the Information You Need -- All in One Place

At the Quest Active Directory Availability Center, you can learn anything you need to know about detecting potential AD problems, diagnosing current situations, and recovering quickly from almost any kind of accident.  With our AD Availability solutions, you can:

Ready-to-Read Resources

“Justifying an Active Directory Disaster Recovery Plan” – What you should know about the risks, costs and unexpected consequences associated with AD interruptions.  In this white paper, you will learn more about:

  • The impact and expense of AD disasters
  • The importance of a forest recovery plan
  • The pitfalls of relying solely on Native recovery methods
  • Real-world examples of AD administrators who have implemented Quest solutions as part of their AD disaster recovery plan

“11 Things to Know about Active Directory Recovery” – Guido Grillenmeier of HP and Shawn Barker of Quest present the fundamentals of Active Directory recovery and surface important considerations when developing your everyday disaster recovery plan.

Windows Server 2003: Planning for Active Directory Forest Recovery” – Microsoft’s updated version of their Forest Recovery process whitepaper for Windows 2003.

  

Discussion Community

Quest’s Active Directory Recovery Discussion Community is a forum where you can ask questions of Quest and industry experts, share best practices and learn more about AD disaster recovery techniques.

Recorded Webcasts

View this Don’t Count on Luck – Accidents Happen: Recovering your Active Directory webinar for a detailed look at the fundamentals of Active Directory recovery using the native tools available from Microsoft.

Customer Experiences

“With a user base in excess of 13,000 and with a number of automated data feeds into AD, our industry experience reveals that deleting a user object by mistake could occur a number of times in a year. Recovery Manager for AD retrieves the deleted user account – with all attributes and group memberships restored – in a matter of minutes.” - Alan Carse, Infrastructure Development and Delivery Manager, Mercer Human Resource Consulting

Mercer Human Resource Consulting echo the sentiments of the over 1,500 customers who have deployed Recovery Manager for Active Directory to protect their organizations against Active Directory disasters.

Learn how Tyco Healthcare Speeds Recovery Time by More Than 75 Percent with Recovery Manager for Active Directory

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Implements Plan for Disaster Recovery with Recovery Manager for Active Directory

Solution Information

                 Quest Spotlight on Active Directory

       (Data Sheet | Trial Software)

Spotlight on Active Directory offers proactive performance monitoring and real-time diagnostics for detecting, troubleshooting and rapid resolution of replication, performance, and availability problems in Active Directory environments. With Spotlight on Active Directory, administrators can easily view and diagnose issues within an organization’s Active Directory, including detecting lingering objects and ensuring that Active Directory is functioning properly after a recovery.

  Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory

        (Data Sheet | Trial Software)

Recovery Manager minimizes downtime caused by corruption or improper modification of directory, configuration and Group Policy data, assisting you in meeting your critical service level agreement requirements and helping you to comply with external regulations. Recovery Manager provides centralized, simplified and automated backup, with remote, online and granular restore capabilities—even at the attribute level. Comparison reports highlight what objects and attributes have been changed and deleted in Active Directory and Group Policy, which enables efficient, focused recovery.

Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition

         (Data Sheet | Trial Software)  

Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition extends the value of Recovery Manager by providing the ability to restore the entire forest to a point in time before the directory became corrupt. It selects unaffected backups, quarantines the damaged environment, and automates all the manual steps required to facilitate a quick and successful full forest recovery.


 






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