Recovery Manager for Active Directory
Reduce your recovery time from a Forest-level Active Directory disaster by 95%
Accelerated Active Directory disaster recovery
A disaster or corruption of your Active Directory (AD) can literally stop your business in its tracks. Recovery Manager for Active Directory enables you to quickly restore your environment without taking AD offline but still maintain business continuity. With Recovery Manager, you’ll be able to:
- Maintain maximum uptime
- Prevent productivity losses from human error or hardware/software failures
- Restore AD to pinpoint changes and recover specific data
See for yourself how this time-saving solution can help you reduce administrative costs while maintaining productivity.
Features
Comprehensive recovery
Restore any object in AD, including users, attributes, organizational units (OUs), computers, subnets, sites, configurations and Group Policy Objects (GPOs). Recovery Manager helps you significantly reduce downtime and get affected users back to work quickly without restarting domain controllers. You’ll be able to eliminate downtime as well as negative impact on network users.
Online granular restore
Restore individual attributes, such as account settings, group memberships and binary attributes, even when the object itself has not been deleted. This enables you to restore only the required attributes without restarting domain controllers.
Comparison reporting
Highlight changes made since the last backup by comparing the online state of AD with its backup or by comparing multiple backups. Accelerate recovery by quickly pinpointing deleted or changed objects or attributes, and can be paired with Change Auditor to identify who made the changes.
Recovery roadmap
Generate a detailed recovery process report. This overview of every recovery stage and operation allows you to gain a better understanding and more control of every aspect of the recovery.
Discover which AD objects have changed, including before and after values, and restore them to a previous state with a few clicks.
Azure Active Directory support
Quickly back up and restore Microsoft Azure Active Directory individual objects.
Delegated recovery
Assign restore tasks to specific users to cut down on recovery timelines and senior-level resource requirements.
Tour
Intuitive interface
Delegated restores
Disaster protection
Restore any AD object
Attribute change rollback
Comparison reporting
PowerShell support
Specifications
- Processor
1.4 GHz, 2.0 GHz or faster recommended
- Memory (overall RAM)
1 Gb, 2 Gb recommended
These figures apply only if the Active Directory domains managed by Recovery Manager for Active Directory include 1 million objects or less. Increase RAM size by 512 MB for every additional 1 million objects.
- Hard Disk Space
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x86 system
- Full installation including the prerequisite software: 1.5 GB of free disk space
- In case all the prerequisite software is already installed: 200 MB of free disk space
- x64 system
- Full installation including the prerequisite software: 2.7 GB of free disk space
- In case all the prerequisite software is already installed: 210 MB of free disk space
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x86 system
Note: Additional storage space is required for a backup repository, at least the size of the backed-up Active Directory database file (Ntds.dit) and the SYSVOL folder plus 40 MB for the transaction log files.
- Display
SVGA at 1024 x 768 or higher
- Operating System
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with or without any Service Pack
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with or without any Service Pack
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Windows 10
- Microsoft Windows 8.1 with or without any Service Pack
- Microsoft Windows 8 with or without any Service Pack
- Microsoft Windows 7 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3
When installed on a Windows XP-, Windows Server 2003-, or Windows Server 2003 R2-based computer, Recovery Manager for Active Directory does not support working with the following:
- Domain controllers or AD LDS (ADAM) hosts running Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 or 2016
- AD LDS (ADAM) hosts running Windows 8 or 8.1
Targets for backup, restore, or compare operations
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with or without any Service Pack (including Server Core installation)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with or without any Service Pack(including Server Core installation)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 1 (including Server Core installation)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack (including Server Core installation)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 without Service Pack or with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2
- Microsoft .NET Framework
Your computer must have all of the following versions installed:
- Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.0
- Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1
- Microsoft SQL Server
One of the following versions is required:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (Enterprise, Business Intelligence, Standard, Express, Web, or Developer Edition)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with or without any Service Pack (Enterprise, Business Intelligence, Standard, Express, Web, or Developer Edition )
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 with or without any Service Pack (Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Web, or Developer Edition)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with or without any Service Pack (Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Web, or Developer Edition)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with or without any Service Pack (Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, or Developer Edition)
Microsoft SQL Server components
All of the following components are required:
- Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2012
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Transact-SQL ScriptDom
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Data-Tier Application Framework
- Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
To display reports, Recovery Manager for Active Directory can integrate with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SRSS) 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2014.
- Microsoft Windows PowerShell
Microsoft Windows PowerShell version 4.0,3.0 or 2.0
- Microsoft Windows Installer
Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5
- Microsoft Management Console
Microsoft Management Console version 3.0
- Integration with Change Auditor for Active Directory
To provideinformation on who modified particular Active Directory objects, Recovery Manager for Active Directory can integrate with the following versions of Change Auditor for Active Directory: 4.5 to 6.9
If any prerequisite software is not installed, the Setup program automatically installs it for you before installingRecov ery Manager for Active Directory. If the prerequisite software to be installed is not included in this release package, it is automatically downloaded.
- Processor
Minimum: 1 GHz
- Memory (overall RAM)
Minimum: 512 Mb
- Hard Disk Space
x86 system: 850 Mb
x64 system: 2 Gb
- Display
SVGA at 1024 x 768 or higher
- Operating system
You can install Recovery Manager on a computer running one of the following operating systems (both x86 and x64 platforms are supported):
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with or without any Service Pack
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with or without any Service Pack
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 or later
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 or later
- Web Browser
To access the Recovery Manager Portal, you can use Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or higher.
- Microsoft .NET Framework
Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5
- Microsoft Internet Information Server(IIS)
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.5, 8.0, 7.5, or 7.0.
- Microsoft SQL Server
One of the following versions is required:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (Enterprise, Business Intelligence, Standard, Express, Web, or Developer Edition)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with or without any Service Pack (Enterprise, Business Intelligence, Standard, Express, Web, or Developer Edition )
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 with or without any Service Pack (Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Web, or Developer Edition)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with or without any Service Pack (Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Web, or Developer Edition)
- Required Microsoft SQL Server components
All of the following components are required:
- Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2012
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Transact-SQL ScriptDom
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Data-Tier Application Framework
You can only use the Password and SIDHistory Recoverability Tool if Microsoft's Active Directory Recycle Bin is not enabled in your environment.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory is upgradeable from version 8.6.1 or later.
Resources
Active Directory Disasters — Plan Ahead! Five Dreaded Days that Can Ruin Your Whole Vacation
Attend this webcast to hear experts explain and rank common Active Directory disasters using a scale of vacation nightmares. Then discover how you can easily prevent them with Active Directory disaster recovery solutions.
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That Dreaded Day: Active Directory Disasters & Solutions for Preventing Them
Active Directory disasters can happen, and that dreaded day can arrive if you’re lacking protection in key areas. While Active Directory’s built-in features will keep AD running after some kinds of failures, there are others from which it cannot bounce ba
Complying with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Explore key provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation and best practices for ensuring compliance before the mandate takes effect.
Surviving Migration to Office 365 — An IT Pros Guide
In this insightful e-book, you’ll get a survival guide for tackling the processes involved in planning, migrating to and managing your new Office 365 environment.
Best Practices for Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions: How to restructure and modernize Active Directory and Exchange
In this white paper, discover why an Active Directory and Exchange migration following a healthcare merger or acquisition can be easier than ever with the right planning, strategy and tools in place.
How to Optimize Your AD for Windows Server 2016
Read this white paper to learn about the Windows Server 2016 new features, key considerations for optimizing your Active Directory, and how Quest can help you prepare for the move, migrate efficiently and manage your new environment effectively.
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