TechValidate Research on Quest Microsoft Platform Management

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise health care company is based on a March 2014 survey of Active Administrator customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased Active Administrator for the following reasons:
  • Needed to make Active Directory more secure
  • Needed a solution to easily back up and restore Active Directory objects
  • Needed to collect Active Directory events for internal auditing

Use Case

• Has 250–999 users of Active Directory at their organization.
• Uses Active Administrator monthly.

Results

• Finds the following Active Administrator features most useful:
  • Group Policy management
  • Security and auditing
• Reduced workload and increased productivity by 10–29% with Active Administrator.

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on a August 2013 survey of Quest Migration Solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Solved the following challenges by migrating with Quest Software:
  • Eliminated dependency on legacy platforms/servers
  • Preserved critical data with high fidelity
  • Met project timeline
  • Minimized impact to end users and IT help desk

Use Case

• Migrated from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange
• Migrated < 500 mailboxes using Quest software.
• The following professionals performed the mailbox migration with Quest software:
  • Partner, consultant or service provider
  • Internal IT staff

Results

• Experienced moderate impact with some unexpected issues on their users during the mailbox migration.
• Satisfied with quality of data migrated

• Purchased Quest software migration solutions because:
  • It ensured better fidelity of migrated data with minimal to no data loss
  • It was recommended by partner or consultant
• Would recommend Quest software solutions for their next migration project due to the following:
  • Minimal impact on the users and help desk