Using the Admin dashboard in On Demand Group Management

Thanks for your interest in Quest on demand, your go-to Sas dashboard for tackling Microsoft challenges in a hybrid world. I'm Shawny Reiner, Senior Strategic Systems Consultant at Quest. In this short video tour, I'm going to explain what on-demand group management is and show you on-demand group management features. If you've taken any of the other tours, you know that ODGM is a Sas based group management tool for on-prem only, hybrid, and Azure only groups. It allows for controlled self-service creation, management, and attestation, as well as provides the administrator with a single pane for the whole hybrid environment. ODGM provides powerful features that solve real world group management issues, such as remaining compliant with attestation, offloading much of the group management strain from admins to the end users and data owners, and solves some native constraints brought about by the complexities of hybrid Microsoft environments. One example of a constraint inherent in a hybrid environment is the management of hybrid distribution groups. When exchanges in hybrid mode with exchange online, users that have been moved into the Cloud lose their ability to manage synced distribution groups using their Outlook client. Microsoft's recommended solution is to use various admin tools to take over management, which puts the ONUS back on the admin. ODGM provides an easy, seamless, and user friendly method and interface for both the admin and the user so that you won't even care where the groups live. The controls are defined by the admin and empower the end user to continue to safely manage these regardless of the native limitations. And ODGM offers the same power for all group management, including on-prem only, hybrid, and Azure only groups from a single pane of glass. If you'd like to read about this hybrid group constraint for yourself, you can search for the following KB, 241, 7592, and 404 1533. Now let's review the admin portal dashboard, which gives you a quick view of the total number of groups in your environment, pending admin requests approvals for group actions, and in-progress self-service requests coming from the self-service portal for users. Clicking any of these takes you to that location in group management. Also, the need your attention widget provides a quick look at operational status between your on-prem Active Directory and Azure tenant. And it gives you a list of the top five largest groups with the member count and assembled to indicate the kind of group each one is. So that's the quick tour. Ready to get started? Check out www.Quest.com/on-demand and navigate to on-demand group management to learn more. Be sure to check out the other available videos.