Active Directory: At the heart of it all
Active Directory is at the heart of it all, providing authentication and authorization for critical resources across your on-premises, cloud and hybrid IT environments. Whether you’re running AD, Azur...
Why — and How — to Monitor Your Workstations
Has your company been hit by ransomware yet? How about other types of malware? Phishing scams, drive-by downloads or pass-the-hash attacks? If you haven’t already, you probably will be soon. What do a...
Protect Your IT Environment: How Your Parenting Skills Can Help
Being an IT administrator can be an enjoyable, rewarding job. So is parenting, for that matter. But being an IT administrator can also be incredibly stressful with frequent hair-pulling moments. Again...
Find out Why Customers Love Change Auditor — Named Winner of a 2018 People’s Choice Stevie Award
Established over 13 years ago, with more than 5,000 customers and 149 million users audited. So it comes as no surprise that Quest® Change Auditor is a People’s Choice Stevie® Award winner. The Peop...
Vulnerabilities in Your AD: What to Watch Out For
In my previous blog posts, I gave two examples of a privileged user could easily hose your Active Directory: by changing deny logon rights and by erasing the DNS entries on a domain controller. You mi...
Top 6 Challenges of Office 365 Management
Thinking of moving to Office 365? Or maybe you’re already in the process of planning an Office 365 migration? If so, you’re in good company. Microsoft reports that more than half of all its business O...
We Need Your Vote. Quest is in it to Win It!
Voting is underway for the 2018 People's Choice Stevie® Awards and this is a shameless plug to drum up support for some of Quest products that we’ve been pouring our blood, sweat and tears into for th...
DNS Security Risks: If Your DNS is Down, Everything is Down.
In my previous blog post, I brought up a subject many of us would just as soon not think about: how easily a privileged user can totally hose your Active Directory. I described one method there (chang...
Avoiding the 3 R’s: Reboot, Restore, Resign
Not long ago, I was talking to an IT pro whose Active Directory went down suddenly one day. He couldn't determine the root cause, so this was his recovery plan: Reboot, restore, and then resign. While...
Quest is back — A year in review
A year in review blog in November? A tad early for a calendar year but spot on for a Quest year. One year ago Quest separated from Dell Technologies to chart a course as an independent software vendor...
When $#!% hits the fan, what’s your Azure AD recovery plan? Find out at Microsoft Ignite!
Identity is the new control plane, which means that being able to back up and recover both your on-premises Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (AD) is critical. But most customers I work with...
Detecting Active Directory breaches: How to Focus on the Needles and Not the Haystacks
One thing is for certain – security has never been so scrutinized and publicized as it has these last few years. IT security spending is the highest it has ever been and yet cyberattacks, and the sto...