Seamless Active Directory migration: reducing manual complexity with AI
Consolidating and modernizing IT environments can deliver tremendous benefits, helping organizations become as competitive and efficient as possible. But getting there isn’t necessarily simple. Initiatives like M&As, attack surface reduction and cloud adoption share a common element: changes to the Active Directory (AD) environment. Unfortunately, traditional AD migration methods often fall short, leading to prolonged downtime, security vulnerabilities and administrative headaches. Today, there’s a better option: leveraging the power of AI in AD migration.
The challenges of traditional Active Directory migrations
When it comes to Active Directory migration, IT teams often struggle with a wide range of challenges, including:
- Lack of experience — Often, the IT pros responsible for the AD migration or consolidation have never been involved in such a project before, so they face a steep learning curve.
- Complexity — Properly handling multiple domains, forests and trust relationships can be overwhelming.
- Downtime — Manual approaches can be quite time consuming, disrupting business operations and impact user productivity.
- Security risks — Inadequate security measures during migration can expose sensitive data to unauthorized access.
- Resource constraints — Limited IT resources can hinder the migration process.
How leveraging AI speeds migration while reducing risk
Quest On Demand Migration mitigates all of these challenges with an AI-powered migration assistant. To illustrate its power, let’s focus on one of the most time-consuming manual components of an Active Directory migration: analysis of migration logs.
Analyzing logs is essential to uncovering migration issues, but having IT experts manually pore through cryptic event entries and lengthy knowledgebase articles is not an efficient way to pinpoint issues and develop remediation strategies. The migration assistant in On Demand Migration leverages artificial intelligence to quickly digest the source materials, surface the most critical insights and provide actionable recommendations. By reducing manual effort, this automation speeds the migration process while enabling migration teams to focus on more strategic activities.
This is just the latest of many capabilities of Quest On Demand Migration, which has migrated over 100 petabytes of data since 2010. In 2024 alone, it migrated 5.4 million users, 3.2 million groups and 260,000 devices.
For learn more about how Quest is revolutionizing AD migration and reducing security risks with its On Demand Migration platform, please visit https://www.quest.com/products/on-demand-migration/.