Active Directory Disaster Recovery Best Practices: Step Up Your Game

Many organizations use Active Directory to manage workforce identities and more, and rely on AD’s resilience every single day. While AD disasters are rare, they can and do happen. Errors, malicious activity, object deletions, and other changes can cause AD to go belly up. While this is well-known, we find that most organizations do not have an Active Directory Disaster Plan and could be exposed to days of downtime should the worst happen. Sean Deuby, a longstanding Microsoft MVP, identity consultant, and Active Directory maven, will join us to outline the different kinds of Active Directory disasters and how you can prepare for them. Panelists: Sean Deuby - Architect, Edgile Inc. Mickey Bresman - CEO, Semperis Request a demo from Semperis today! https://www.semperis.com/request-a-demo/ 0:00 Introduction 0:20 Panelists 2:24 About Semperis 3:30 Why Active Directory Disaster Recovery Requires A Unique Approach 8:17 Different Active Directory Disasters 12:02 Poll question 13:49 IDM Change - Case Study 17:24 IDM Change - Solution 19:50 DNS Record Modification - Case Study 22:01 DNS Record Modification - Solution 24:27 Windows 2003 Server to 2008 R2 - Case Study 31:18 Windows 2003 Server to 2008 R2 - Solution 32:58 DNS Zone Restoration - Case Study 35:23 DNS Zone Restoration - Solution 37:29 Lost Configuration Partition Permissions - Case Study 39:09 Lost Configuration Partition Permissions - Solution 41:22 Summary And Takeaways 44:12 Semperis AD Protection Suite 46:49 Questions