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Administration & Automation

Quest’s administration and automation solutions reduce IT costs, enhance security and improve policy compliance. Turn to us when you need to:

  • Automate repetitive tasks such as deploying patches
  • Report on assets, configurations, and resource utilization
  • Enable self-service
  • Manage the provisioning and configuration of virtual desktop and server environments

Review the capability categories below to find a solution for your specific IT challenges.

Database Administration

Quest offers the industry-leading database management tools you need to be more productive. Our products span multiple platforms, so simply choose your platform — then choose Quest. You get dramatically simplified database administration, making your job easier than you ever imagined.

Windows Infrastructure Administration

Solutions from Quest Software help you work smarter and faster by automating the day-to-day administration of Windows platforms and enterprise applications. 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.

Windows Infrastructure Reporting

Get the intelligence you need to manage your Windows environment. Quest reporting solutions automate data collection and report generation to help you identify trends, conduct compliance and security audits, make informed decisions on migrations and investments and defend SLAs.

Virtual Desktop Administration

Beyond just VDI, Quest provides a smarter way to manage and automate multiple desktop virtualization technologies, enabling you to do more with less complexity, fewer resources and lower costs.

VM Administration

Quest simplifies and automates the administration of virtual machine environments to reduce costs, improve efficiency and accelerate your return on investment.

Browse the technology platform categories below to find solutions for your unique IT challenges.

Active Directory

Quest, the expert in Active Directory management, has the depth of knowledge, experience and tools to make your Active Directory secure, compliant and available. As a two-time Microsoft ISV partner of the year, you can count on Quest to help you simplify Active Directory management, by making it more efficient, secure and affordable.

BlackBerry

Quest helps maximize the performance and availability of your mobile infrastructure. Track voice calls, data and IM usage and trends to keep your environment running smoothly and proactively control costs.

DB2

With Quest you can simplify the manual, time-intensive tasks associated with DB2 database design, development, code optimization, performance and availability for DB2 on Linux, Unix, Windows and z/OS.

Exchange Server

Detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your Microsoft Exchange environment with out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring uptime and optimal Exchange performance.

Hyper-V

Quest solutions work with Hyper-V to reduce the complexity associated with building, provisioning and managing virtual desktops and applications. For virtualized servers, our solutions also enable monitoring, administration, automation, capacity planning and chargeback for physical, virtual and cloud environments on this platform.

OCS/Lync

Quest helps you access organizational message flow, view top users of IM, conferencing and voice calls and establish trends in usage and growth to keep your environment running smoothly and proactively control costs.

Oracle Database

At Quest, our application- and services-management solutions provide Oracle-specific capabilities for managing database performance and availability, diagnostics, business services and end users. Plus, we can help you with change, configuration and release management.

SharePoint

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.

System Center

Quest helps you extend the functionality of Microsoft Operations Manager and System Center Operations Manager to your heterogeneous environment.

VMware

Quest’s solutions for server and desktop virtualization are built for easy, seamless installation on the VMware vSphere platform. Our solutions allow you to protect, manage and provision on it, while enabling co-existence with other platforms.

Windows Server

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.

Database Administration

Quest offers the industry-leading database management tools you need to be more productive. Our products span multiple platforms, so simply choose your platform — then choose Quest. You get dramatically simplified database administration, making your job easier than you ever imagined.

  • Toad DBA Suite for IBM DB2 LUW
    The Toad® DBA Suite for DB2 on Linux, Unix, and Windows is an integrated toolset that enables you to work proactively.
  • Toad DBA Suite for Oracle
    The Toad® DBA Suite for Oracle is a complete set of Oracle DBA tools that enable you to become more proactive by automating maintenance, ensuring optimal performance, and mitigating the risk of change.
  • Toad for SQL Server
    Toad® for SQL Server is a productivity toolset for SQL Server administration, performance tuning, and development.

Database Administration and Tuning

Quest simplifies database administration tasks, with capabilities to create, alter and manage database objects, users, logins and security across your database infrastructure. Tune your database performance by improving queries, optimizing storage capacity and automating index generation.

  • Space Manager with LiveReorg
    When it comes to Oracle reorganization, database capacity optimization, and ensuring peak performance, Quest’s Space Manager with LiveReorg® is simply unbeatable.

Optimize I/O and Disk Utilization in Oracle Databases

When it comes to Oracle reorganization, database capacity optimization and ensuring peak performance, Quest solutions are unbeatable. Benefits include:

  • Eliminate unnecessary disk-space purchases by reclaiming and reorganizing disk space
  • Forecast future space needs and detect emerging issues with visual tools for capacity monitoring
  • Determine the best fit for access to data with flexible partition options

Windows Infrastructure Administration

Solutions from Quest Software help you work smarter and faster by automating the day-to-day administration of Windows platforms and enterprise applications. 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.

  • Active Administrator
    Active Administrator is an enterprise solution focused on streamlining Active Directory security and Group Policy Management.
  • ActiveRoles Server

    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.

Active Directory Administration

Simplify administration of Active Directory with Quest solutions to delegate, secure, configure, audit and backup and restore changes to Microsoft’s LDAP directory service. Our solutions also automate user and group provisioning with rules, role-based security and easy-to-use interfaces.

  • GPOADmin
    With Group Policy regulating everything from critical business processes and security settings to individual workstations and printers, managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can become time-consuming and expensive.

Group Policy Management and Administration

Automate critical group policy management tasks that reduce costs, minimize risks and eliminate manual processes.

  • Server Administrator for SharePoint

    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 Server and Farm Administration

Optimize your SharePoint environment with Quest solutions that give you insight into your server and farm configurations and customizations to simplify administration, increase performance, ensure availability and enhance security.

  • Site Administrator for SharePoint
    Understand, manage and secure your SharePoint environment and empower business content owners with Site Administrator for SharePoint's security trimmed, centralized management, security and reporting.

SharePoint Site Administration

Reduce risk and gain control of SharePoint with tools that provide centralized administration, discovery, site and content browsing, data collection and reporting, global policy and permissions management, and audit data collection and reporting.

  • Storage Maximizer for SharePoint
    Store more data, improve SharePoint performance and reduce SQL infrastructure costs with Storage Maximizer for SharePoint’s automated external storage management.

SharePoint Content Storage Administration

Increase SharePoint performance, free up space for higher priority data, leverage compression and reduce storage costs while keeping SharePoint scalable to meet business requirements.

Windows Infrastructure Reporting

Get the intelligence you need to manage your Windows environment. Quest reporting solutions automate data collection and report generation to help you identify trends, conduct compliance and security audits, make informed decisions on migrations and investments and defend SLAs.

  • Domain Statistics Wizard
    Quest Domain Statistics Wizard allows you to collect statistical data from Microsoft Windows network domains and Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007 servers, or from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 servers.
  • MessageStats
    Quest MessageStats provides a single solution to reduce the complexity of email reporting and analysis across legacy and newly implemented platforms.

Email, IM and Mobile Messaging Reporting

Optimize and integrate your unified communications with solutions to maintain messaging performance, defend SLAs, simplify migrations, calculate licensing requirements and meet compliance objectives.

  • Site Administrator for SharePoint
    Understand, manage and secure your SharePoint environment and empower business content owners with Site Administrator for SharePoint's security trimmed, centralized management, security and reporting.

SharePoint Usage Reporting

Do you know what’s in your SharePoint? Quest provides powerful centralized reporting and discovery solutions to help you:

  • Identify all SharePoint servers and sites, including rogue sites you may not know about
  • Report on user and site permissions—and then take action within these reports
  • Analyze the size and scope of site collections, including types of content and use of storage for current vs. stale and deleted files

  • Domain Statistics Wizard
    Quest Domain Statistics Wizard allows you to collect statistical data from Microsoft Windows network domains and Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007 servers, or from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 servers.
  • Reporter
    Reporter helps administrators quickly identify trends and correlations and then rapidly resolve issues and make strategic and tactical decisions that involve the security of their Active Directory and Windows environment.

Windows Server and Active Directory Reporting

Decrease your administration workload by automating data collection and report generation. You’ll spend less time and money managing your Windows infrastructure and more time making informed tactical and strategic decisions.

Virtual Desktop Administration

Beyond just VDI, Quest provides a smarter way to manage and automate multiple desktop virtualization technologies, enabling you to do more with less complexity, fewer resources and lower costs.

  • vWorkspace
    vWorkspace lets you deploy a blended model – pairing the appropriate technologies to users based on their unique needs while keeping the average cost per virtual desktop to a minimum.

Terminal Server Management

Eliminate the need for separate management tools—Quest provides an integrated console to manage and automate tasks for your entire virtualized desktop environment, including Terminal Server/RD Session Host.

  • vWorkspace
    vWorkspace lets you deploy a blended model – pairing the appropriate technologies to users based on their unique needs while keeping the average cost per virtual desktop to a minimum.

Virtual Desktop Provisioning

Quest helps you quickly customize virtual desktops, deliver applications and provision new users from a single console, without visiting individual workstations.

  • vWorkspace
    vWorkspace lets you deploy a blended model – pairing the appropriate technologies to users based on their unique needs while keeping the average cost per virtual desktop to a minimum.

Virtual Desktop Security

Secure your entire virtualized desktop environment with Quest and delegate user and administrator privileges, connect via SSL gateways, as well as enforce two-factor authentication (optional).

VM Administration

Quest simplifies and automates the administration of virtual machine environments to reduce costs, improve efficiency and accelerate your return on investment.

  • vOptimizer Pro
    Quest vOptimizer Pro is the only product on the market that can reclaim over allocated virtual storage (shrink VMDKs) and perform 64K partition alignments to significantly improve VM I/O performance.

VMWare Virtual Storage and Partition Alignment

Quest simplifies virtual storage administration with solutions to:

  • Improve VM I/O performance by up to 15 percent
  • Automatically reclaim and resize storage based on business rules
  • View storage growth trends, including spikes, to address performance issues before they negatively impact your business

Active Directory

Quest, the expert in Active Directory management, has the depth of knowledge, experience and tools to make your Active Directory secure, compliant and available. As a two-time Microsoft ISV partner of the year, you can count on Quest to help you simplify Active Directory management, by making it more efficient, secure and affordable.

  • Active Administrator
    Active Administrator is an enterprise solution focused on streamlining Active Directory security and Group Policy Management.
  • ActiveRoles Server

    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.

Active Directory Management

Quest provides broad Active Directory management including provisioning, delegating, securing, configuring and auditing changes to AD. Get enterprise-class management capabilities in your business.

  • GPOADmin
    With Group Policy regulating everything from critical business processes and security settings to individual workstations and printers, managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can become time-consuming and expensive.

Group Policy Management and Administration

Simplify your group policy management and administration by automating management tasks to reduce costs and eliminate manual processes.

  • Reporter
    Reporter helps administrators quickly identify trends and correlations and then rapidly resolve issues and make strategic and tactical decisions that involve the security of their Active Directory and Windows environment.

Reporting

Easily report on data essential for compliance audits, security assessments or pre- and post-migration analyses. Decrease daily management workload by automating data collection and report generation.

BlackBerry

Quest helps maximize the performance and availability of your mobile infrastructure. Track voice calls, data and IM usage and trends to keep your environment running smoothly and proactively control costs.

  • MessageStats
    Quest MessageStats provides a single solution to reduce the complexity of email reporting and analysis across legacy and newly implemented platforms.

Reporting

Gain insight into your messaging environment and learn to optimize operational efficiencies to maintain performance, defend SLAs, simplify migrations and meet compliance requirements.

DB2

With Quest you can simplify the manual, time-intensive tasks associated with DB2 database design, development, code optimization, performance and availability for DB2 on Linux, Unix, Windows and z/OS.

  • Toad DBA Suite for IBM DB2 LUW
    The Toad® DBA Suite for DB2 on Linux, Unix, and Windows is an integrated toolset that enables you to work proactively.

Database Administration

Simplify database administration by automating maintenance, ensuring optimal performance, and mitigating the risk of change.

SQL Tuning

Tightly integrate console and robust graphical interfaces to dramatically simplify SQL tuning.

Space Management

Tightly integrate console and robust graphical interfaces to dramatically simplify space management.

Workload Analysis and Trending

Tightly integrate console and robust graphical interfaces to dramatically simplify workload analysis and trending.

Exchange Server

Detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your Microsoft Exchange environment with out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring uptime and optimal Exchange performance.

  • MessageStats
    Quest MessageStats provides a single solution to reduce the complexity of email reporting and analysis across legacy and newly implemented platforms.

Reporting

Gain insight into your messaging environment and learn to optimize operational efficiencies to maintain performance, defend SLAs, simplify migrations and meet compliance requirements.

  • Domain Statistics Wizard
    Quest Domain Statistics Wizard allows you to collect statistical data from Microsoft Windows network domains and Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007 servers, or from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 servers.

Statistical Data Collection from Windows Domains and Exchange Servers

Quest helps collect statistical data to gain insight into your Windows network domains and Exchange servers.

Hyper-V

Quest solutions work with Hyper-V to reduce the complexity associated with building, provisioning and managing virtual desktops and applications. For virtualized servers, our solutions also enable monitoring, administration, automation, capacity planning and chargeback for physical, virtual and cloud environments on this platform.

  • vWorkspace
    vWorkspace lets you deploy a blended model – pairing the appropriate technologies to users based on their unique needs while keeping the average cost per virtual desktop to a minimum.

Terminal Server Management

Eliminate the need for separate management tools—Quest provides an integrated console to manage and automate tasks for your entire virtualized desktop environment, including Terminal Server/RD Session Host.

  • vWorkspace
    vWorkspace lets you deploy a blended model – pairing the appropriate technologies to users based on their unique needs while keeping the average cost per virtual desktop to a minimum.

Virtual Desktop Provisioning

Quest helps you quickly customize virtual desktops, deliver applications and provision new users from a single console, without visiting individual workstations.

  • vWorkspace
    vWorkspace lets you deploy a blended model – pairing the appropriate technologies to users based on their unique needs while keeping the average cost per virtual desktop to a minimum.

Virtual Desktop Security

Secure your entire virtualized desktop environment with Quest and delegate user and administrator privileges, connect via SSL gateways, as well as enforce two-factor authentication (optional).

OCS/Lync

Quest helps you access organizational message flow, view top users of IM, conferencing and voice calls and establish trends in usage and growth to keep your environment running smoothly and proactively control costs.

  • MessageStats
    Quest MessageStats provides a single solution to reduce the complexity of email reporting and analysis across legacy and newly implemented platforms.

Reporting

Gain insight into your messaging environment and learn to optimize operational efficiencies to maintain performance.

Oracle Database

At Quest, our application- and services-management solutions provide Oracle-specific capabilities for managing database performance and availability, diagnostics, business services and end users. Plus, we can help you with change, configuration and release management.

  • Toad DBA Suite for Oracle
    The Toad® DBA Suite for Oracle is a complete set of Oracle DBA tools that enable you to become more proactive by automating maintenance, ensuring optimal performance, and mitigating the risk of change.

SQL Development

Ensure the best possible application performance by proactively identifying issues directly from running SQL statements, PL/SQL or other source code and automating the SQL optimization process.

  • Toad DBA Suite for Oracle
    The Toad® DBA Suite for Oracle is a complete set of Oracle DBA tools that enable you to become more proactive by automating maintenance, ensuring optimal performance, and mitigating the risk of change.

Database Administration

Resolve issues before they impact production by automating maintenance, ensuring optimal performance and mitigating the risk of change.

  • Space Manager with LiveReorg
    When it comes to Oracle reorganization, database capacity optimization, and ensuring peak performance, Quest’s Space Manager with LiveReorg® is simply unbeatable.

Optimize I/O and Disk Utilization

Resolve performance issues caused by fragmentation from archiving Oracle data to reclaim space and prevent application and database downtime.

SharePoint

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.

  • Site Administrator for SharePoint
    Understand, manage and secure your SharePoint environment and empower business content owners with Site Administrator for SharePoint's security trimmed, centralized management, security and reporting.

Site Administration and Usage Reporting

Discover and understand the extent of SharePoint through metrics, trends and user activity. You can also establish security policies and ensure compliance by providing a consolidated report of all activities occurring across the entire environment.

  • Server Administrator for SharePoint

    Server Administrator for SharePoint gives you maximum insight into your SharePoint server and farm configuration and customizations to optimize manageability, performance, availability and security.

Server and Farm Configuration

Ensure your SharePoint server and farm configurations and customizations are set properly and conform to best practices to optimize manageability, performance, availability and security.

  • Storage Maximizer for SharePoint
    Store more data, improve SharePoint performance and reduce SQL infrastructure costs with Storage Maximizer for SharePoint’s automated external storage management.

SharePoint Content Storage Administration

Increase SharePoint performance, free up space for higher priority data, leverage compression and reduce storage costs while keeping SharePoint scalable to meet business requirements.

System Center

Quest helps you extend the functionality of Microsoft Operations Manager and System Center Operations Manager to your heterogeneous environment.

Connect Disparate Systems into the Microsoft Environment

Extend the functionality of Microsoft Operations Manager and System Center Operations Manager to your disparate systems.

Extend System Center to Other Environments

Extend the functionality of System Center Operations Manager and System Center Configuration Manager to all the other environments used in your organization.

  • Management Connector – Operations Manager
    Operations Manager is an ideal solution for Windows infrastructure management and, in conjunction with the QMC, can uni- or bi-directionally integrate the event, alert and performance data being collected by various management tools being used by the IT team.

Unite System Center with Non-Microsoft Management

Extend the functionality of Microsoft Operations Manager to other non-Microsoft management platforms.

VMware

Quest’s solutions for server and desktop virtualization are built for easy, seamless installation on the VMware vSphere platform. Our solutions allow you to protect, manage and provision on it, while enabling co-existence with other platforms.

  • vOptimizer Pro
    Quest vOptimizer Pro is the only product on the market that can reclaim over allocated virtual storage (shrink VMDKs) and perform 64K partition alignments to significantly improve VM I/O performance.

Virtual Storage and Partition Alignment

Reduce storage costs by reclaiming space and improve VM I/O performance with 64K partition alignments.

Windows Server

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.

  • Domain Statistics Wizard
    Quest Domain Statistics Wizard allows you to collect statistical data from Microsoft Windows network domains and Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007 servers, or from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 servers.

Statistical Data Collection

Quest helps collect statistical data to gain insight into your Windows network domains and Exchange servers.

  • Reporter
    Reporter helps administrators quickly identify trends and correlations and then rapidly resolve issues and make strategic and tactical decisions that involve the security of their Active Directory and Windows environment.

Reporting

Easily report on data essential for compliance audits, security assessments or pre- and post-migration analyses. Decrease daily management workload by automating data collection and report generation.

Get the most from your investment with help from our highly rated support team, training programs, and implementation services.