Microsoft Active Directory

WHITE PAPER: Most enterprises already have a heavy investment in Active Directory. Find out how your business can leverage AD for a more efficient and responsive identity management system.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover 7 key tips to help you achieve and maintain compliance in Active Directory, including what to keep an eye on, warning signs to look out for and how to leverage auditing tools to simplify the process in this essential resource.

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 | Published: 13 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper focuses on best practices for implementing an enterprise Active Directory infrastructure using virtualization technology. We will discuss how to perform a full migration of your physical AD infrastructure to a virtualized environment.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Taking advantage of Group Policy and Active Directory can simplify Windows 7 migration while simultaneously boosting efficiency and cost savings.  Access this white paper to learn how you can gain more control over your Windows 7 migration, enhancing your competitive advantage and increasing your business opportunities.

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this new Quest white paper, learn about the challenges of managing Active Directory using native tools – and how provisioning in your diverse environment is equally difficult. Then, discover a third-party solution that not only delivers a comprehensive provisioning solution, but one that makes it quick, easy and painless.

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Organizations want to run the apps they want, and not run the apps they don't want. One of the tools Microsoft has given Active Directory administrators to help in this regard, Software Restriction Policies (SRPs), has been re-engineered in Windows 7 as AppLocker.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, Microsoft MVP Darren Mar-Elia provides best practices for leveraging native AD auditing. Then, he’ll discuss what auditors and compliance officers look for when it comes to examining your AD environment. He’ll also explore third-party alternatives to native auditing that greatly enhance AD auditing. Read this paper today.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Delivering smarter security and more customized services are at the top of any IT agenda. Both would be easier and cheaper to achieve with a common infrastructure, in what we call an identity and context service. In this paper, we’ll address how such a shared service can serve these two very different IT initiatives.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: A new, more flexible identity infrastructure is on the horizon. With the growing adoption of federation standards and protocols, such as SAML 2.0, OpenID, and WS-Trust, both enterprises and end users will benefit from enhanced security, increased privacy, and a better experience. Read this white paper for more information about the new system.

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 | Published: 22 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this Quest white paper, discover best practices - straight from Industry experts Nelson Ruest and Danielle Ruest - to help you have a successful post-migration operation. Learn why you MUST have the same level of post-migration planning that you had for pre-migration, and discover four key aspects of post-migration management you must know.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011