Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory

ZeroIMPACT Active Directory consolidation and restructuring

Quest® Migration Manager for Active Directory (AD) is the ZeroIMPACT solution for mitigating risk when consolidating or restructuring your AD. Simplify your migration and ensure that users maintain secure access to workstations, resources and email throughout the entire project. With the help of our coexistence capabilities, streamlined project management and business-critical support, you'll be able to overcome:

  • Business disruptions
  • Tight timelines
  • Project complexity
  • Limited budgets and resources

But don't take our word for it. Read on to see what your peers who have actually used the product have to say:

  • Seven ways Migration Manager for AD can make your migration successful
  • Customers' answers to seven questions about their migrations
  • Seven reasons customers recommend Migration Manager for AD
  • Seven case studies

7 ways Migration Manager for AD can make your migration successful

ZeroIMPACT, full-directory migration

Restructure your AD during business hours, reducing IT workload with no adverse effect on user productivity. With Migration Manager, you'll be able to move all types of objects, including users, groups, computers, volumes, printers, contacts, organizational units, network topology (including sites, subnets and site links), and directory permissions.

Complete coexistence

Maintain seamless user access to all network resources, such as servers and printers, regardless of their migration status.

Flexible, comprehensive planning

Plan any migration scenario, from simple AD improvements to a complete restructuring of your entire domain. You'll be able to reduce risk by staging users, scheduling workstation moves and updating permissions. And you can easily mirror your production environment to a test lab to ensure that all processes are effective and safe before they are applied.

Simplified project management

Manage your migration with confidence through a robust project management interface, advanced delegation capabilities, numerous reporting options, granular undo functionality, full rollback, multi-agent architecture, distributed resource processing and permissions updating.

Automated, parallel processing

Automate the migration and enable parallel processing to save valuable time and ensure zero downtime.

Automatic updates

Save time and reduce risk by automatically updating permissions and resources, including AD, SharePoint, Exchange, Internet Information Services (IIS), file and print servers, SQL Server, cluster servers, and Microsoft Systems Management Server. You can also update NTFS security, shares and more.

Secure execution

Increase the security and reliability of your project by taking advantage of a test mode to verify the accuracy and security of your migration plan. Then optimize your post-migration environment, preserving passwords and removing source accounts and related references.

Case Study

Global Retailer Slashes Migration Timeline in Half

Staples Solutions recommends Migration Manager for Active Directory because it "can give you the possibility to reduce the costs of the migration as well as improve end-user satisfaction."

Challenges

Fortune 500 company Staples Solutions needed to migrate to AD to manage merger & acquisition activity. They evaluated both native tools and Binary Tree before selecting Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory.

Results

Staples reduced IT costs, improved IT efficiency, minimized risk and disruption, kept end users productive during the migration, and enjoyed seamless coexistence during their migration. They realized ROI on the tool within three months and completed the migration more than twice as fast as they had expected. They rated Migration Manager for AD 10 out of 10 because they view it as a "great tool with a huge list of functionalities available. It's a well-working product."

Healthcare System Migrates with Zero User Impact And No Data Loss

Avera Health consolidates four AD forests into one with a 99% success rate.

Challenges

Avera Health is a leading healthcare system with over 330 locations. The company had four separate Active Directory forests with 13 different domains and more than 20,000 user accounts. This complex IT infrastructure made critical tasks more difficult and drove up both costs and management overhead.

Results

With Migration Manager for Active Directory, Avera seamlessly completed its migration twice as fast as expected with a 99% success rate. As a result, the company was able to streamline patient care, improve security, and slash IT overhead.

They rated Migration Manager for AD 10 out of 10 because they view it as a "great tool with a huge list of functionalities available. It's a well-working product."

Manufacturer Successfully Migrates More Than 10,000 Users

Adient US LLC completes its AD migration in less than half the time than expected and kept users productive throughout the project.

Challenges

Automotive seat manufacturer Adient needed to restructure its Active Directory due to merger & acquisition activity. They evaluated native tools, Binary Tree, and some homegrown solutions before deciding to go with Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory.

Results

Adient successfully migrated over 10,000 users in less than half the time they had expected. Moreover, the Quest solution enabled them to improve IT efficiency, minimize risk and disruption, keep users productive during the migration, and streamline management of their AD migration project. Adient achieved ROI on its investment in Migration Manager for AD within 6 months. They shared this lesson learned from their AD migration: "Know your data prior to starting the migration. Who are the users, which servers/workstations will migrate, and which applications will migrate. The cleaner your data the easier the migration will be."

Global 500 Company Keeps 10,000 Users Productive During Its Migration

A large energy & utilities company in Spain completes its migration on schedule with ZeroIMPACT and achieves ROI within a year.

Challenges

To manage merger and acquisition activity, this large company needed to migrate over 10,000 users. Before selecting Quest Migration Manager for AD, they evaluated Microsoft native tools.

Results

Thanks to the coexistence capabilities of Migration Manager for AD, the IT team was able to keep end users productive throughout the migration. They met their target timeline and realized ROI on this large project within the first year. The IT project manager notes, "I've used Quest migration tools on all integrations I've participated in."

Large Telecom Minimizes Risk and Disruption for More Than 5,000 Users

An enterprise telecommunications services company in Canada completes its migration on schedule and realizes ROI within a year.

Challenges

This customer needed to restructure their Active Directory due to merger and acquisition activity. They had evaluated Microsoft native tools prior to selecting Quest for the more complex migration.

Results

Using Migration Manager for AD, the company was able to migrate more than 5,000 users while improving IT efficiency and ensuring seamless coexistence throughout the migration. They completed the migration on schedule and realized ROI on the solution within a year.

Media & Entertainment Company Realizes Immediate Roi

A large enterprise media & entertainment company in Spain slashes its migration timeline in half and keeps users productive throughout the project.

Challenges

This company needed to restructure its Active Directory environment and migrate fewer than 500. After evaluating both Migration Manager for AD and Binary Tree, they selected Migration Manager for AD, pointing to its rollback capabilities as important to their decision.

Results

Thanks to the coexistence capabilities of Migration Manager for AD, the migration team was able to minimize disruption to the business and keep their users working throughout the migration. They were able to perform the migration in less than half the time they had expected, and they saw immediate ROI for the solution.

Telecom Saves More Than $100,000

Ding completes migration tasks two to four times faster than before, saving the IT team up to nine hours per week.

Challenges

Ding previously tried Microsoft native tools but choose Quest based on its scalability, ability to complete the migration on schedule, ease of installing the software, and time and cost savings it delivered.

Results

By automating complex manual processes and ensuring seamless coexistence with Migration Manager for AD, Ding saved more than $100,000. The tool enables IT staff to complete tasks two to four times faster than before, saving up to nine hours per week that they can spend on more strategic initiatives.

Conclusion

As you can see, Quest is an expert in migrations and consolidations. Our migration solutions will help you complete your migration on time and on budget while minimizing both IT workload and disruption to the business.

About Quest

At Quest, our purpose is to solve complex problems with simple solutions. We accomplish this with a philosophy focused on great products, great service and an overall goal of being simple to do business with. Our vision is to deliver technology that eliminates the need to choose between efficiency and effectiveness, which means you and your organization can spend less time on IT administration and more time on business innovation.