Both Exchange and Office 365 have the option to provide users with two separate mailboxes. First, there is the normal “User Mailbox”, which is typically used on an everyday basis and is housed on high performance storage media. Second, is the “User Archive…

I've been asked many times for a list of events Change Auditor can produce for all modules so I thought it would be a good idea to share the list I have produced in Excel and also explain how you can create your own. Before I get into the details, keep…

Step 4: Control and simplify Group Policy management.

Using GPOADmin, you can be very granular with who is allowed to do what with a particular Group Policy. Much like Active Roles, GPOAdmin allows you to grant specific rights to your Administrators and…

By Tim Eichmann, Head of Infrastructure & Cloud Services, Core Technology Systems (UK) Limited

Whatever your opinion is on the cloud and how secure it is for data storage, one thing that holds true is that a lot of cloud services are now moving into…

In my previous post, I touched on how you can identify users in AD with elevated rights. Now we need to determine if they're really necessary.

Step 2: Identifying what rights are needed for the job.

I can't begin to tell you how many companies that…

One of the tools that Active Directory administrators have to help mitigate brute force hacking attempts is the account lockout. Typically configured in a Group Policy, the account lockout policy tallies the number of failed authentication attempts for…

In Migration Manager for Exchange we use a collection to manage the mailboxes to be migrated.  Depending on your migration plan you can use these collections for specific tasks or stages.  To provide flexibility, the mailboxes to be synchronized are grouped…

Perhaps it wasn’t your decision for your organization to migrate to Office 365. Yet, the decision was made, and what followed was a significant amount of planning and heavy lifting to get your IT environment optimized (specifically Active Directory) for…

For those who are unfamiliar with Change Auditor, it is the auditing solution offered by Quest.  The solution offers a wide range of auditing capabilities to help provide a view into what changes are occurring within your environment.  Unfortunately, the…

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald…

Los archivos PST en un entorno empresarial pueden crear una variedad de problemas relacionados con seguridad, fuga de datos y gastos generales administrativos.  Mover los archivos PST hasta un archivo de correo de O365 puede eliminar los problem...

Here are some of the questions I get about the Change Auditor database when visiting customers:

1. Should the size of the database be relative to the size of the environment?
2. Should the size of the database be relative to the amount of activity in my environment…