Solutions Guide
Read this guide to learn about Quest solutions and products and how they help your IT reduce the costs, complexities and risks in managing your Windows infrastructure.
Read now >>
On the Board
Watch Frank Vella, Global VP of Windows Management, discuss the biggest challenges facing IT organizations and how Quest can simplify Windows management.
Watch video >>
Product Readiness Matrix
Find out how Quest supports Microsoft's latest technologies.
Read now »
Simpler Windows management starts with Quest Software. Trust the experts at Quest – two-time winner of Microsoft’s Global ISV Partner of the Year and Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Partner of the Year – to help your IT organization reduce cost, complexity and risk in your Microsoft Windows-based infrastructure. We've built a solution set of award-winning products both internally and through acquisition. Learn more about two key acquisitions that have significantly enhanced our portfolio:
Already know which product will simplify your work? Review this list to find it – and browse related products.
Review the capability categories below to find a solution for your specific IT challenges.
Whether driven by a merger, acquisition, consolidation or new platform, transitions will be fast and efficient thanks to Quest’s proven expertise as the migration authority. Your end users will be able to collaborate without interruption, and your organization will be exposed to less risk. Learn more »
Quest Software enables organizations to simplify identity and access management by reducing the number of identities, automating the identity administration and by basing identity management on existing investments. Learn more »
Reduce the stress and pressure on your IT organization by using Quest to meet the requirements of an ever-increasing number of internal policies and external regulations. Quest’s solutions help you eliminate distractions, remove complexity and be proactive. React to compliance problems quickly with regulation-specific auditing, reporting, retention and alerting. Proactively protect critical data and control usage in Windows and beyond. Learn more »
Quest’s solutions help maintain availability and performance, enabling your IT organization to be proactive and stay on top of the health of critical Microsoft systems to avoid business interruptions. If an interruption does occur, Quest’s solutions ensure continuity of operations and help streamline the recovery process. Learn more »
Quest’s solutions help your IT organization work smarter by automating day-to-day management of Microsoft infrastructures, and extending that control to Unix, Linux, Java and Mac platforms, as well as a number of enterprise applications. Tens of thousands of administrators rely on Quest tools every day. Learn more »
Quest provides your administrators the flexibility to build on the functionality of Microsoft Windows-based platforms, enabling them to accomplish more in less time. Configure, script, build and test new applications in SharePoint, SQL Server and PowerShell. Learn more »
Browse the technology platform categories below to find solutions for your unique IT challenges.
Quest delivers secure management tools for Active Directory and unique solutions for automation and provisioning, compliance and audits, security, disaster recovery, mergers and acquisitions, and directory consolidation with Unix, Linux, Mac, Java and certain business applications. Learn more »
With30 million users and mailboxes migrated and millions more mailboxes managed, Quest Software has the experience to help IT simplify and accelerate migration and management of Exchange Server, Office Communications Server and other unified communications (UC) platforms. With Quest, Exchange-based UC is more compliant, available, secure and efficient. Learn more »
Rely on Quest to simplify migrations, maximize the performance, ensure the availability and decrease the complexity of managing Office Communications Server. With more than 10 years of experience managing millions of mailboxes and users, Quest has the expertise to help IT prove that Office Communications Server is delivering its intended business results. Learn more »
To reduce the administrative costs and burdens of managing messaging and collaboration on-premises, many companies are considering the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS): a set of hosted messaging and collaboration solutions including Microsoft Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. Quest can help accelerate and simplify your migration to BPOS. Learn more »
Get control of SharePoint with Quest solutions for SharePoint migration, security and auditing, access management, recovery, administration, or customization and development. Quest has the products, support and experience you need to make your SharePoint environment more efficient and manageable. Learn more »
Ensuring good SQL Server performance is demanding work. And when you’re facing challenges like SQL Server sprawl, tightening IT budgets, growing complexity, and exponential data growth, the pressure can get intense. But our solutions for SQL Server can simplify your daily tasks and increase your productivity — no matter how complex your environment gets.
Windows PowerShell, the new command line and scripting language developed by Microsoft to help administrators work more efficiently with applications running on the Windows platform. Quest has developed tools and a robust online community to help administrators adopt and become efficient at scripting with this new platform. Learn more »
The challenges facing organizations lie in addressing the identity, access and systems management challenges presented by Unix, Linux and Mac platforms. Quest offers a set of solutions to improve manageability, operational efficiency, enhance security and help you achieve compliance with your non-Windows systems. Learn more »
Coexistence Manager for GroupWise mitigates the risk of disrupted messaging and communication between end users.
Migrator for Sametime provides detailed pre-migration assessments, centralized project management, and task automation.
With Quest, you can reduce the time, risk and complexity of migrating to the latest Microsoft platforms, so you can quickly take advantage of new enhancements and operational efficiencies. Start by selecting your current platform:
Quest solutions help you reduce the complexity of your IT environment and lower costs by consolidating disparate directories, multiple domains, duplicate identities, countless servers and legacy data into a unified Windows environment structure. Choose what you would like to consolidate:
Quest helps you streamline administrative tasks and associated overhead costs, and helps you align with your organizational needs by enabling you to easily restructure Active Directory domains, Exchange organizations and SharePoint sites within your environment. Choose which platform you would like to restructure:
Enterprise Single Sign-on from Quest Software, the industry’s leading enterprise single sign-on solution that bases all logins on a user’s existing Active Directory identity, requires no cumbersome infrastructure and streamlines both end-user management and enterprise-wide administration of single sign-on.
Quest is the only vendor to offer the full spectrum of single sign-on (SSO) - from directory and identity consolidation to enterprise single sign-on- for whatever systems, applications, or databases you have. Options include Active Directory-based integration that actually brings systems and applications into Active Directory as "full citizens" for Kerberos single sign-on and Enterprise Single sign-on for any application or system that cannot join Active Directory.
Learn more »
ActiveRoles Server provides out-of-the-box user and group account management, strictly enforced administrator-based role security, day-to-day identity administration and built-in auditing and reporting for Windows-centric environments.
Quest One actually simplifies identity and access management in organizations with an identity framework such as Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM), IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (iTIM), Tivoli Access Manager (iTAM), Sun Java Identity Manager, Novell eDirectory, and solutions from Oracle, Computer Associates, and others. Quest One compliments your metadirectory to improve security, help you achieve compliance, and enhance efficiency.
InTrust securely collects, stores, reports and alerts on event data from Windows, Unix and Linux systems, helping you comply with external regulations, internal policies and security best practices.
Webthority is an integrated security solution that enables you to provide employees, customers and partners with secure, browser-based access to essential information without adding infrastructure or complexity.
One of the biggest challenges facing complex heterogeneous organizations is the need to audit and report on identity lifecycle, user authentication, authorization and rights, and access activities. The Quest One Identity Solution provides powerful capabilities to actually reduce the number of identities and the number of tools required to audit the entire environment. In addition, Quest One tools provide powerful, specialized audit capabilities optimized to satisfy your task- and platform-specific requirements.
The Quest One Identity Solution delivers multifactor alternatives to traditional username/password authentication. The Quest One Solution for Strong Authentication builds on existing investment to deliver all the security and control you need without requiring additional infrastructure and redundant management tools and practices.
The Quest One Identity Solution addresses many of the most pressing password management issues facing complex heterogeneous enterprises, such as the high cost of password resets, inconsistency of password policy across platforms and applications, and the problems of multiple, disparate passwords.
To many organizations, identity management is firmly rooted in user provisioning - the management of the identity lifecycle. Quest’s provisioning solutions automate and improve the provisioning, re-provisioning, and de-provisioning of users in Active Directory as well as for specific identity management services such as enterprise single sign-on and strong authentication. Using Quest’s standards-based solutions, moreover, these Active Directory-based capabilities can be easily extended to include your Unix, Linux, Java, and Mac identities.
The Quest One Identity Solution delivers powerful solutions for managing administrative access and the authorization and control required of them. Whether your are dealing with the Active Directory administrative account, the Unix root account, or any of the multitude of application and platform elevated privilege credentials, Quest One enables granular control, more secure access, and role-based authentication.
Quest helps you protect your valuable data, as well as achieve and maintain compliance with products that inventory your infrastructure, prevent rogue changes and unauthorized access in real time, report on all change activity from a single interface and secure log-ons with two-factor authentication.
Quest simplifies identity management. We have products and solutions that manage privileged and granular accounts, implement and enforce strong password policy and authentication, assess identity and access management policies, as well as extend the security of AD to non-Windows systems and applications.
Your Exchange and Office Communications Server (OCS) will stay compliant and secure with Quest. Thousands of customers rely on our products to audit and report on usage, domains, configurations and permission changes, retain or dispose of e-mail with flexible retention policies, as well as to enforce policies and controls to regulate user activity and prevent data loss.
Quest can help you easily and efficiently capture, retain, preserve and search for e-mail, and in case of a loss or disaster, enable you to quickly search for and recover e-mail from backups.
Server Administrator for SharePoint gives you maximum insight into your SharePoint server and farm configuration and customizations to optimize manageability, performance, availability and security.
SharePoint use is rapidly spreading throughout many organizations –uncontrolled, that growth can create chaos and threaten security. Quest can help you discover and document the extent of SharePoint with consolidated reports of log data on activities occurring across the entire environment. You’ll be able to easily set and enforce policies, as well as achieve compliance, by managing all access and permissions on servers and sites.
Quest makes it easy for you to configure, manage and optimize SQL Server schema and table data. You will be able to discover rogue instances of SQL Server, as well as quickly and efficiently roll out, roll back and track changes across the entire SQL Server environment.
Protect your critical Active Directory data – backups and recoveries are simple and fast with Quest. You can also prevent downtime and potential data losses with our solutions that detect, diagnose and resolve performance problems.
With Spotlight’s comprehensive view into your messaging infrastructure you can improve system performance, reduce costs and improve productivity.
Quest enables you to troubleshoot, resolve, report on and measure any problems with Exchange, OCS and BlackBerry, as well as recover lost e-mail data.
Quest helps you easily and quickly recover any SharePoint item from existing backups, as well as guides you through the process of a complete farm restoration.
With Quest, you can encapsulate a complete database restore into a single file to speed up restore time, as well as easily and quickly recover individual database objects
Foglight Performance Analysis for SQL Server lets you see determine the root-cause of performance deviations and identify changes to your SQL Server environment quickly and easily.
You can easily provide workload analysis for both real-time and historical performance diagnostics with Quest solutions. You’ll be able to deliver action plans that offer an analysis and recommendation for improving overall database performance, as well as report on performance for all levels of the organization.
Quest provisioning solutions automate day-to-day tasks, control users, groups and resources and synchronize identities and passwords
Quest simplifies identity and access management by enabling you to securely control user access across the enterprise. With Quest, you can consolidate multiple identities into one identity and your infrastructure into one directory with one point of access.
Quest solutions enable you to monitor Exchange, OCS, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry from a single console, as well as automate e-mail recovery and reporting.
Gain control and visibility of SharePoint with Quest. Our solutions enable you to centralize management, as well as report on metrics and manage growth.
Quest can help you manage SQL capacity requirements, as well as monitor, configure, track and report on your database performance.
Increase the usability and adoption of SharePoint with solutions that help you rapidly customize your environment to meet business demands and then automate and control the deployment of changes across the entire environment, easing the development burden on your staff.
PowerGUI Pro improves efficiency and controls costs by providing you with the administrative and management tools you need to speed the adoption of PowerShell within your environment.
With Quest, you can master the art and syntax of scripting in PowerShell without training costs. You’ll save time and boost administrator efficiency with custom scripting interfaces and pre-packaged script PowerPacks, and our integrated version control enables you to employ scripting best practices and ensure script accuracy.
Quest has solutions to help you deploy high-quality applications that meet user requirements and perform reliably in production. You’ll be able to easily scan code for problematic SQL statements, and with one click, find the most efficient SQL alternative, saving coding time. You can also validate the performance of database applications by testing user load scenarios prior to deployment, ensuring success.
Automate day-to-day management, provision users, and synchronize user accounts from Active Directory across the enterprise. Securely delegate administration and permissions with "roles" and "rules."
Inventory your infrastructure, audit changes over time, prevent unauthorized changes in real-time and store and report on all change activity from a single interface.
Protect critical data, configurations and your environment by strictly enforcing policies and eliminating unregulated access to resources. Quest security solutions include two-factor authentication, user and administrative activity reports, and control over user and group access.
Stay on top of the health of your Active Directory. Avoid downtime and detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they become critical. Recover objects including attributes in minutes! Quest can even help you recover an entire domain or forest if there’s a catastrophic disaster.
From initial discovery and setting up GAL synchronization from day one, to merging Active Directory forests, restructuring Active Directory, and consolidating non-Windows infrastructure into Active Directory, Quest has the products to smooth the inevitable rough edges and tense times that accompany the melding of IT infrastructures.
Reduce the number of directories, restructure Active Directory, reduce the number of synchronization points and bring disparate identities together under a common identity namespace including Kerberos single sign-on. Enable Unix, Linux, Mac, and Java systems to participate as full citizens in Active Directory.
Migrate from older versions of Exchange, GroupWise, Notes or even from other IM platforms with Quest, the trusted authority for migrations. Whether migrating on-premises or to Exchange Online, more than 30 million users and mailboxes migrated can’t be wrong.
Take the stress out of audits, and stop threats and data loss. Produce easy-to-understand reports, audit mailbox access, as well as retain and dispose of e-mail to meet regulatory compliance mandates. Establish and enforce permissions in real-time.
Ensure the continuous availability of Exchange, OCS and BlackBerry. Maintain SLAs, report on capacity and throughput, resolve performance issues before they impact end users, and improve service. Recover e-mail quickly and at less cost.
Find and produce e-mail for internal, legal or regulatory investigations faster and easier. Capture, retain, preserve and search for e-mail. Search quickly through volumes of historical messaging to support legal/compliance initiatives and provide better service to all end-users by recovering e-mail from backups faster.
Spend less time worrying about managing your messaging server platforms, and more time contributing to more strategic projects. Automate reporting to facilitate decision-making and planning. Reduce administration time and complexity by monitoring multiple messaging server platforms from a single console. Reduce e-mail recovery time with automated processes.
Quest’s solutions for Office Communications Server enable you to:
Quest can help expedite and simplify your migration to BPOS with solutions for migrating from Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise to Exchange Online and in migrating from Lotus Notes and SharePoint to SharePoint Online. Coming soon: Quest will support migrations to Office 365.
Manage SharePoint with fewer resources and in less time than SharePoint native tools allow. SharePoint administration doesn’t have to be a hassle. With Quest solutions, you can proactively manage all sites and servers centrally and use reports to gain visibility into usage, permissions and content.
Speed the process of recovering lost or deleted SharePoint items. With Quest solutions, your IT organization can ensure that your recovery SLAs are met and users are productive and happy.
Minimize the time and effort required to execute SharePoint migrations, consolidations and restructuring. Whether driven by a merger or acquisition, a new platform release or change, or through growth, Quest can move your data and applications quickly, reliably, and with minimal impact on both IT and end users.
Get relief from that uneasy feeling that your SharePoint infrastructure is vulnerable. Quest will help you discover all of your SharePoint instances, secure access to content with granular permissions, report and audit changes across your environment and set policies and rules to maintain a secure and healthy environment.
Secure your SharePoint in less time and with fewer resources. With Quest, you can mitigate risk by ensuring that your end users have appropriate access to SharePoint sites, documents and lists.
Increase the usability and adoption of SharePoint to your business with solutions that help you combine information, enhance views and build applications, menus and dashboards without the cost of developing and maintaining custom code.
We’ve taken performance management to the next level with scalable, intelligent web-based monitoring. We also offer detailed workload and wait-event analysis, and the ability to optimize your environment with ease. Our comprehensive SQL diagnostics allow you to perform both real-time and historical analysis to detect issues and determine proper action plans — whether your environment is physical, cloud-based, or virtual.
With LiteSpeed® for SQL Server, you get intelligent, configurable, database backup and recovery and up to 85 percent more compression than the competition provides. LiteSpeed also includes advanced features like object and data level recovery, network resilience, backup analyzer, and more.
We make it easy for you to quickly reclaim space, monitor and report on capacity growth trends, reorganize database objects and rebuild indexes to improve SQL Server performance. Our tools help you predict future storage needs, take advantage of space-saving opportunities, and resolve fragmentation issues.
Toad Data Modeler helps you create high-quality data models and easily deploy accurate changes to data structures — at a fraction of the cost of many other solutions.
Our SQL Server development products not only automate common tasks, but they also provide the most efficient SQL alternative to replace problematic code — with just one click. Our products decrease the total cost of ownership of SQL Server by reducing costly bugs and functional errors – the number one cause of poor application performance and downtime.
We’ve simplified SQL Server management, making it easier than ever to gain control of complex environments. We can help you discover SQL Server instances, configure, and optimize SQL Server schema and table data, and manage changes efficiently.
Toad® for Data Analysts provides querying and reporting capabilities from a single interface that automates and streamlines time-consuming tasks. So you can find, understand, and report on data in record time. Plus, you can access data from any source with a single tool that natively supports all platforms.
PowerGUI is the freeware tool administrators need to rapidly adopt PowerShell within their environment. Immediately begin building powerful scripts that harness the power of PowerShell across your environment.
PowerGUI Pro is a graphical PowerShell administration console with an integrated editor and debugger. Solves issues regardless of time and place using MobileShell for remote management. Ensures scripting best practices by leveraging Version Control integration.
The ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory is a set of PowerShell commands that can be used to perform and automate administrative tasks like discovering the AD environment, changing user properties, modifying group membership, provisioning new user accounts, and performing multiple other tasks within Active Directory.
Enable Unix, Linux, and Mac to authenticate through Active Directory
Extend Active Directory access control and password policy to Unix, Linux, and Mac
Protect the Unix Root account from misuse or abuse through granular delegation
Enable Unix, Linux, and Mac users to reset their own passwords
Provision, re-provision, and de-provision accounts in Active Directory
Centrally manage and report on local users and groups
Implement policy-based management by extending Windows Group Policy to Unix, Linux, and Mac platforms
Get the most from your investment with help from our highly rated support team, training programs, and implementation services.