Migrating Exchange Without Trusts
One of the more common questions we see is "Can we migrate Exchange without any trusts in the environment?"The answer to that is "YES" however there are some hurdles. Here are 3 of them: If you hav...
Remediating and Mitigating Privileged Access Issues in Your Hybrid AD and Azure AD
The challenges associated with securing data in Office 365, whether completely cloud based or a hybrid AD iteration, are numerous, and addressing them requires a solid plan to ensure your risk of a da...
Hybrid AD and Azure AD Security Begins with Continuous Permissions Assessment
If your organization made the jump to Office 365 and are now completely cloud based or in a hybrid AD environment, you probably spent a lot of time getting your on-premises AD ready for the move. Now ...
Office 365 Security: Is On-Premises AD Your Weakest Link?
Office 365 has more than 60 million active monthly users, and adoption of the platform is increasing—for good reason. It allows organizations to reduce infrastructure and costs related to licensing an...
Notes / Exchange / GroupWise / Zimbra / Hotmail / Office 365 migrations easily done with ONE SOLUTION…
Whether you are an Email Service Provider or just a company running one of the above solutions there is a product that can easily be setup in a matter of minutes to start your migration to Exchange On...
Migrating to Archive Mailboxes with Quest On Demand Migration for Email
Both Exchange and Office 365 have the option to provide users with two separate mailboxes. First, there is the normal “User Mailbox”, which is typically used on an everyday basis and is housed on high...
Change Auditor – Audit Event List with Searching and Sorting Options in Excel
I've been asked many times for a list of events Change Auditor can produce for all modules so I thought it would be a good idea to share the list I have produced in Excel and also explain how you can ...
Securing your Active Directory Environment from the Inside Out. (Part 4)
Step 4: Control and simplify Group Policy management. Using GPOADmin, you can be very granular with who is allowed to do what with a particular Group Policy. Much like Active Roles, GPOAdmin allows yo...
How to limit the amount of Cache memory used by Exchange Servers using PowerShell with applications to Rapid Recovery (Part 1 of 2)
Part two of this blog series may be found here A few days ago, I was working with a MSP customer that had the same issue on multiple Exchange servers hosted by his own customers. Specifically, in that...
Managing Identities in the Hybrid World of Azure AD
By Tim Eichmann, Head of Infrastructure & Cloud Services, Core Technology Systems (UK) Limited Whatever your opinion is on the cloud and how secure it is for data storage, one thing that holds true is...
Securing your Active Directory Environment from the Inside Out. (Part 2)
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. ...
Investigating Account Lockouts with IT Security Search
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 tall...