Hi, I'm Sean Lutley with Quest. And today, we're going to show you how you can discover how many cloud-only Azure AD objects you have with Quest On Demand Recovery.
Do you know how many cloud-only users, groups, and attributes you have in Azure AD? When we ask our customers this question, too often they reply, I don't know, or don't realize why it's important. The fact is, it's practically impossible to run Office 365 or Azure without creating some cloud-only objects. Objects and attributes that are created in the cloud are not usually synchronized back to the on-premise AD. That means they are not covered by on-premise back-ups and recovery solutions.
For example, every Azure AD user has an Office 365 license type that determines which Office 365 features the user is entitled to use. If that user object is deleted, you could recover the on-premise AD user object and use Azure AD Connect to sync it back up to Azure AD. But the license type attribute would be gone, leaving the user unable to work in the cloud until you resolve the problem manually.
Here's where Quest comes in. You can use On Demand Recovery to run a report that scans your entire environment and clearly differentiates which objects are on-premise and sync to your Azure AD, versus which are cloud-only objects not covered. Let me show you how.
After you've logged into the On Demand portal and have accessed back-up and recovery module, make sure that you have unpacked your latest back-up. Then you're going to click on the Objects link. After the object's loaded, now we are going to run a search for cloud only. This will only display the cloud only objects. Then you're going to check off the Select All button, and then you're going to hit the Export link. This will export all the objects to a zip file that contains a CSV file.
As you can see, it's downloading below, and after it completes I'm going to open the zip file. And then open up the CSV file. And this gives you a very detailed list of all your cloud-only objects.
So now that you've seen how easy it is to run the cloud-only objects report, we invite you to run this report in your tenant today. You can sign up for a free 30-day trial of On Demand. It's all SAS, so you don't have to install anything to run this report. Just sign up, connect to your tenant, and go.
And that concludes this video demonstration. Thank you for taking the time to watch, and there'll be many more to come.
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