Articles By: Quest

How to Manage ‘Teams Sprawl’
In this era of remote working, the adoption and popularity of Microsoft Teams is soaring. Unfortunately, many organizations enable Teams sprawl by allowing users to create Teams with no oversight or planning. This lack of governance leads to seldom-used or dead Teams, empty channels, and data scattered all over chats, channels and files tabs.

How to Migrate Exchange to Office 365: Step by Step
If you’re planning an Exchange to Office 365 migration, it can be quite confusing to determine which steps you need to take and in what order. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps and decisions you will need to take when migrating to Exchange Online in the Office 365 cloud.

Managing Remote Workstations With Active Directory Domain Joins
Active Directory domain joins are an integral part of many IT modernization and security initiatives. These projects are complex and technically challenging. This is especially the case in enterprises with domain-joined devices that are remote to the corporate network.

Maintaining the Health of Your Active Directory Infrastructure
Maintaining the health of your production AD environment is key to its performance, availability and security. The health of your AD infrastructure is also crucial for preventing roadblocks to significant IT changes like adding new applications, network upgrades, cloud migrations, or supporting a merger, acquisition or divestiture.

Simplify Critical GPO Management and Governance Tasks
Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are critical for successful Microsoft Active Directory environments. One wrong GPO can inflict massive damage to the security of your network within minutes, and you have up to thousands of GPOs deployed across your environment. There’s huge potential for insider threat without the proper compensating security controls.

Lessons Learned From a Recent Ransomware Recovery
Today’s headlines are filled with harrowing stories of successful ransomware attacks — and less than successful ransomware recovery efforts. However, some organizations do restore operations swiftly. What are their secrets? Read this white paper to learn about a ransomware attack on a global manufacturing company.


Nine Best Practices to Improve Active Directory Security and Cyber Resilience
It was often a lapse in internal security that enabled the attack to succeed, despite robust external security.