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1 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Business Challenges Human error and hardware or software failures can too easily cause accidental deletion of Active Directory or Group Policy data. Malicious employees can intentionally erase directory data. Viruses can render the entire directory corrupt − These everyday disasters in Active Directory cause unplanned system downtime and hours, or days, of lost user productivity.

2 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Technical Challenges Native recovery tools are manual, time-intensive, and often require that Active Directory be taken offline, adding costs with the resulting unplanned system downtime Failure to create regular backups of Active Directory can lead to decreased Active Directory and Group Policy reliability Windows Server 2003 Tombstone Reanimation capability does not provide complete recovery functionality Windows Server 2008 does not provide any improvements to granular, online restore of AD objects Windows Server 2008 R2 does not provide a user interface but requires scripting for the Active Directory Recycle Bin feature

3 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Downtime is Expensive

4 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. What if you could… Speed recovery time—from hours or days to minutes—to help ensure the availability of corporate networks? Recover any type of object and even roll back corrupted attributes, ensuring recovery from any type of disaster? Increase Active Directory and Group Policy reliability by improving backup efficiency? More frequent backups mean more accurate data, while smaller backups reduces storage requirements Recover objects using a graphical interface without scripting Reduce administrative workload with centralized and unattended backup creation and easy-to-use recovery options? Lower costs and increase user productivity by eliminating unplanned system downtime?

5 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. You Can with Recovery Manager Used by over 3,500 customers who protect over 45,000,000 AD accounts “Recovery Manager for AD retrieves the deleted user account – with all attributes and group memberships restored – in a matter of minutes.” —Alan Carse, Infrastructure Development and Delivery Manager, Mercer Human, Resource Consulting ”I recommend Recovery Manager for Active Directory to anyone who has ever gone through restoring Active Directory with standard tools like Ntdsutil - or anyone who ever will.” —Rodney Landrum, SMCP Magazine “As part of an overall AD management process, our own IT department depends on Recovery Manager for Active Directory to provide quick recovery if data is accidentally deleted or modified in Active Directory.” —Carol Fawcett, VP, Information Services, Quest Software

6 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) CMS previously spent three weeks recovering from an Active Directory disaster in which 650 Group Policy Objects were deleted. Recovery Manager for Active Directory provided CMS A foundation for its newly developed comprehensive recovery plan to prevent such a long, costly recovery time in the event of another disaster A solution that, if the disaster occurred again, would take less than two hours to remedy, versus the three weeks it did Quest has Helped Organizations Like Yours

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8 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Recovery Manager Forest Edition: Completes your Forest Disaster Recovery Plan

9 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Recovery Manager for Active Directory Provides Decreased recovery time to help ensure the availability of corporate networks Recovery from everyday disasters, including recovery of any object type and ability to roll back corrupted attributes Increased Active Directory and Group Policy reliability by improving backup efficiency Simplified User Interface for recycle bin type functionality Reduced administrative workload with centralized and unattended backup creation and easy-to-use recovery options Lowered costs and increased user productivity by eliminating unplanned system downtime Full support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2

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11 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. What’s New in v8.1 and 8.2 Backup Agent Management − You can use the Recovery Manager console as a central location to manage Quest Backup Agent and view information about the Backup Agent instances that are manually preinstalled in your environment. Consolidate Backups Created by Different Recovery Manager Console Instances − This feature allows you to consolidate all backups created by multiple Recovery Manager console instances deployed in your environment so you can access and use these backups from a single Recovery Manager console. Support for Operations Manager 2007 R2 − The Management Pack supplied with Recovery Manager now supports Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. By using this Management Pack, you can monitor the health and availability of the Recovery Manager console, Computer Collections, computers added to Computer Collections, and the backup and restore operations performed by Recovery Manager. German language support

12 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Backup/Recovery Comparison * Domain and forest recovery require Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition Windows® 2003 Windows® 2008 Windows® 2008 R2 Recovery Manager for Active Directory® Backup remotely Determine what objects have changed/been deleted Undelete objects Undelete objects from graphical interface Online object restore including all attributes Online object restore without scripting Roll-back changes to objects Online restore of Group Policy Objects Restore dozens of deleted objects in under 10 minutes Centralized administration of backup/recovery Automated domain/forest recovery *

13 ©2011 Quest Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Windows Server 2008 R2: Recycle Bin There is no user interface Scripting is required Every domain in the environment must be upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2 functional level Once the recycle bin functionality is turned on, it can't be turned off - and that may violate certain security regulations For additional details and a demo of the Active Directory Recycle Bin, visit

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