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.
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Here are some of the questions I get about the Change Auditor database when visiting customers:
Early use of MAPI
Historically, Quest Migration Manager for Exchange had relied upon the use of MAPI connections to MS Exchange to extract and migrate mail content. This agent architecture built using MAPI as its connection to Exchange (known as the legacy…
Foglight for Active Directory has the answer....
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Does your 2017 IT “To Do List” include a Microsoft Office 365 migration? If you’re preparing for a move to the cloud, you’ve probably realized that most Office 365 deployments feature synchronization between an on-premises Active Directory environment…