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. »

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. »

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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. »

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. »

One rogue administrator at Fannie Mae could have deleted 4,000 servers and debilitated this highly visible organization. Quest One would have limited the consultant’s administrative rights, preventing him from making malicious changes in the first place. »

The objective of this paper is to review identity and access management challenges, the different solutions/products offered by vendors in order to address them and describe how Quest Software's solutions fit into this broad picture. »

Many efficiencies can be realized by understanding where money is being spent unnecessarily. As with many IT challenges, additional tools or solutions may be required to achieve those efficiencies, so in addition to understanding where improvements can be made, we also need to discuss how those improvements can be funded. »

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. »

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. »

When the decision was made to centralize the administration of databases for one customer, ESOS, the West Midlands leading provider of HR and payroll services, turned to Quest for help with improving the SQL Server environment, including performance monitoring. »

Quest Software's Toad for SQL Server offers broad functionality that lowers the barrier of entry, eases developer workload, and provides developers with accurate information so they can make intelligent decisions about database performance. »

Database backup and recovery is becoming more difficult and more complicated. Two factors are putting a "double whammy" on today's IT shops like never before: 1) the unabated explosion in data growth and 2) the ever-increasing need for data security. »

Real-time communications are used throughout most enterprises, and often exist in a free-for-all, with few constraints on usage. Although they are great for collaborating, real-time communications -- left unmanaged -- present challenges for regulatory compliance, security, operational efficiency and appropriate use. »

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. »

Although UC is relatively new, the benefits of using products like 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 day-to-day messaging problems and enables streamlined communications. »