Every Wednesday in May, we’re hosting a live four-part webcast series, How to Overcome Common Hybrid AD and Cloud Security Challenges. The webcast series features a fictional character, Hank the Hacker, who represents hackers that appear in many…
Every Wednesday in May, we’re hosting a live four-part webcast series, How to Overcome Common Hybrid AD and Cloud Security Challenges. The webcast series features a fictional character, Hank the Hacker, who represents hackers that appear in many…
Organizations like yours are sprinting to Microsoft cloud services, such as Office 365 and Azure Active Directory (AD). But as your cloud — and hybrid — footprint expands, so does your security risk. That’s because in a hybrid…
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 tallies the number of failed authentication attempts for…
For those who are unfamiliar with Change Auditor, it is the auditing solution offered by Quest. The solution offers a wide range of auditing capabilities to help provide a view into what changes are occurring within your environment. Unfortunately, the…
Since starting my tenure at Quest, I have had multiple customers ask me “how can I use Change Auditor to audit DNS changes in my environment?” At first thought, this seems like an easy task to complete. Change Auditor comes with many DNS related…
The first step in migrating Notes archives with Migrator for Notes to Exchange (MNE) is to determine where the archive files are located. The location of Notes archives can vary between Notes deployments and can also vary by user or department. Most commonly…
We are excited to announce a new version of Migrator for Notes to Exchange 4.14.1 is now available for download.
Look what's new:
Email is an extremely important method of communication for any size business. As business needs change, so do email infrastructure requirements. On Demand Migration for Email (ODME) is a cloud-based migration service that is able to scale to meet your…
Hope you got some rest and relaxation during your vacation. Now you not only need to get caught up with email, but your Jr. Admin has a confession about some changes he/she made in Active Directory. The biggest question is, what were all their changes…
Modern security information and event management (SIEM) solutions can collected logs from every type of device including Active Directory (AD) so that companies can search through and analyze “everything”. The question we are often asked is…
When you use Migration Manager for Active Directory/Exchange to migrate to Office 365 you will manage the project using 2 software consoles “Migration Manager for AD (Office 365)” and “Migration Manager”. There are 2 main phases when you migrate your…
Quest is proud to deliver Client Profile Updating Utility 5.6.4. In this version the following 2 known issues were fixed.
Encrypting Ransomware is a family of malicious software (also known as malware) designed to take files on a PC or network storage device, encrypt them, and then extort money in the form of a ransom to unlock the files. This sophisticated type of attack…
Until now, Administrators and cloud-based service providers have been relying on native, web-based tools to manage users and groups in Microsoft Azure Active Directory. Empower them to manage hybrid on-premises/Azure-based Active Directory environments…
Migrating data from one file server to another (or multiple) can be a task in which you can pick from millions of tools out there. Basic Copy or Xcopy commands which may not get you the file rights moved over. Use of Robocopy helps get those rights and…
Our journey towards innovation aimed at reducing IT administration continues. We’ll deliver solutions that ensure that productivity, simplicity and value are synonymous, not exclusive.
We'll help you manage and protect your data, take control of…
Despite most of the market shifting to Microsoft Office 365 and even Google Apps to some extent, there are still many organizations running IBM Lotus Notes for email, calendaring and line-of-business applications and collaboration.
However, the clock…
Moving data between servers can be a painful process because of the security involved over the data. Moving the same data between servers, which are in different domains, is even more troublesome. Trying to move data between forests/domains which are…
Ah Thanksgiving, that time a year all families in America have dinner at the exact same time, thanks to a new sync mechanism called "NFL halftime.”
Confession - I can’t ridicule our in-laws again after my previous blog about not letting…
Our data and systems are frequently under attack these days. A more traditional attack is from external threats like viruses or hackers trying to gain access from outside of your environment. Threats from inside your environment are on the increase though…
As you may know, migration of Microsoft platforms (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Office 365) can be risky, disruptive, costly and time-consuming.
Migrations and consolidations can be complex and can put a strain on your internal IT team. So…
A major release of Desktop Authority has been a long time coming. Here are just some of the exciting new features and enhancements included in the latest version:
Off-Network support for domain joined machines
Privilege Manager's application whitelisting abilities has finally met its match, and it's called Blacklisting...
What’s New in Privilege Manager for Windows 4.0?
Blacklist Feature
Trending upward in IT is the amount of Email data being migrated to the Cloud from On-Premise Exchange.
Specifically, there are increased migrations to Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange Online), which is what we would call a “Cloud Provider” or software…
Enterprise Reporter 2.6 Hotfix #1 is a maintenance release that addresses the issues noted below as well in the attached Read Me. This release is cumulative, meaning that if version 2.6 is installed, you can safely install the version found in this solution…