Manage Your Windows Environment with Tools from Quest

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Vendor: Quest Software, Inc. (www.quest.com)

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Amplify Your Microsoft Investment
For companies with a significant investment in Microsoft operating systems, server products, and desktop operating systems, Quest offers an opportunity to eliminate the chaos of dealing with multiple vendors while still fulfilling all of your IT management needs.

Tackling Active Directory’s Four Biggest Challenges
The problem with Active Directory's native resistance to major change is that businesses are dynamic. They grow, add divisions, merge with other businesses, and manipulate themselves time and time again to keep up with customer demand. As a result, many organizations find themselves merging or restructuring their Active Directory infrastructure to follow the business.

Hot Topics in the Active Directory Space
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Migrating to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite
To reduce the administrative costs and burdens of managing messaging and collaboration on-premises, many companies are considering hosted solutions. One option is Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite: a set of hosted messaging and collaboration solutions including Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Office Communications Online.

Migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Online Standard
Hosted e-mail services are an increasingly attractive alternative to on-premises e-mail platforms, offering reduced costs, increased protection from outside threats, and enhanced operational efficiency. This technical brief discusses how Quest Software can ensure a fast and seamless migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft’s hosted offering, Microsoft Exchange Online.

Total Petrochemicals Migrates from Notes to SharePoint with Solutions from Quest
After careful evaluation of the available migration solutions, Total chose Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint. It enables organizations to accurately analyze their Lotus Notes application content and securely migrate it to SharePoint without data loss. It offers both automated migration of standard Notes applications and advanced migration of complex or custom Notes applications.

Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Today
The SharePoint product team has provided guidance on a number of items that can help organizations prepare, and Service Pack 2 includes a key tool that can provide additional insight and configuration information.

The many pieces of a complicated Windows infrastructure can lead to inefficiencies, security holes, and a great deal of time spent on manual management tasks. Using software tools from Quest Software, complex and time-consuming tasks such as management, security, and migration become easier and faster to handle.

Let's examine the various parts of a Windows infrastructure to see how Quest Software can help create a more efficient environment.

Recovery Manager for Exchange Demo
Recovery Manager for Exchange allows individual, message-level items to be restored from regular Exchange backups, un-mounted .edb information stores and Lotus Domino .nsf files without setting up a dedicated recovery server.

Active Directory
Many organizations rely on Microsoft's Active Directory to enforce policies and control access to different parts of the Windows infrastructure. Quest has a number of Active Directory Management Solutions that help with every facet of Active Directory management, including automation and provisioning, compliance and audits, security, disaster recovery, directory consolidation, and Active Directory changes needed due to mergers and acquisitions.

Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory allows administrators to schedule automated backups for off-peak hours and recover specific Active Directory objects or roll-back selected attributes without taking Active Directory offline.

The Right Tools Can Simplify Unified Communications
Although UC is relatively new, the benefits of using products such as Office Communications Server are clear for both the end-user and the IT department. Coupled with third-party solutions, OCS becomes a robust UC solution that resolves many messaging problems and enables streamlined communications.

Active Administrator, the comprehensive Active Directory solution from ScriptLogic (a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software) provides administrators the ability to establish, view, and enforce delegated security throughout Active Directory management and perform comprehensive Group Policy management, including Group Policy reporting and Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP), as well as powerful auditing and reporting of changes within Active Directory.

Beyond Active Directory, Quest Software provides identity and access management with its Quest One Identity Solution. It increases efficiency, enhances security, and enables compliance by reducing identity management complexity, automating key identity administration tasks, and building on existing investments. Quest One helps with single sign-on, provisioning, password management, role management, strong authentication, audit, and directory consolidation based on the existing identity infrastructure.

E-Mail and Unified Communications
E-mail is the main conduit for communication in many organizations today, and Quest Software can help keep this vital link open with software that makes management and migration easier. Quest Software helps to manage 30 million e-mail inboxes and has aided in 20 million migrations with its software for Microsoft Exchange and Office Communications Server (OCS).

Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange provides item-level recovery from backups, reduces the cost of e-discovery, and provides end users with message-level data recovery services. Quest's MessageStats reports on all Exchange, OCS, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry activity to enable the trending of system usage for proactive management. Quest Archive Manager captures, indexes and stores messaging data transparently to end-users.

Storage
As the amount of electronic data created increases, and organizations need to store an increasing amount of that data, Quest Software offers applications that help manage storage in a Windows infrastructure.

Quest Storage Suite for Windows empowers an organization to optimize its Windows storage network by performing storage assessment, managing data consolidation, and automating ongoing data management tasks. Storage Manager for Windows enables administrators to gain visibility into their storage environments by providing enterprise-wide to file-level detail on current network storage. Storage Consolidator for Windows automates the online migration of data, data security and printers to new storage devices such as Windows-Powered NAS, SANs, clusters, and other solutions.

Quest also offers a number of tools to help manage SQL Server databases, helping them run more efficiently and keeping them secure.

SharePoint
SharePoint is one of the faster growing products in Microsoft's lineup, and Quest offers the tools administrators need to manage and get the most out of their installation. Quest's Migration Manager for SharePoint helps customers new to the SharePoint platform safely and easily move their enterprise data into SharePoint.

Quest Software's Site Administrator for SharePoint helps organizations reduce risk and gain control of SharePoint 2003 or 2007 with tools that provide centralized administration, discovery, site and content browsing, data collection and reporting, global policy and permissions management, and audit data collection and reporting. Recovery Manager for SharePoint provides comprehensive granular search, convenient previews, and rapid restores of individual documents up to site collections.

System Center
Microsoft System Center is a family of leading IT management solutions that helps administrators proactively plan, deploy, manage, and optimize their IT environment. Quest Software's solutions manage System Center by providing help for provisioning and virtualization, monitoring and diagnostics, change and configuration management, and backup and recovery.

Quest offers management and extension packs that help administrators extend the capabilities of various System Center components, such as Operations Manager and Configuration Manager.

The Management Pack for .NET enables companies extend Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 and Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 to deliver, manage and control .NET applications to exceed service levels and optimize application support processes.

Other Tools
In addition to its supported commercial software applications, Quest has a number of free, unsupported software tools available for download that administrators can use to maximize their investment in a Windows infrastructure.

These tools can help with Windows network management, storage assessment, network discovery, Active Directory tasks, PowerShell scripting, and much more.

Whether administrators need help with a one-time, simple task involving their Windows infrastructure or want to make a long-term investment to keep business-critical servers and data available around the clock, Quest Software has the tools that can help.

Manage Your Windows Environment with Tools from Quest

Learn how using software tools from Quest Software can make complex and time-consuming Windows infrastructure management tasks, such as security and migration, easier and faster to handle.