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Active Administrator 8.7 - Release Notes

Switching to Active Directory Health

The Active Directory® Health module incorporates key features from Quest® Directory Analyzer and Directory Troubleshooter. If you are a current user of Directory Analyzer and Directory Troubleshooter, you can switch over to Active Directory Health gradually, or right away. See the Quest® Active Administrator® User Guide for detailed instructions.

To switch gradually
1
Deploy at least two agents into the Active Directory Health agent pool and add a few domain controllers to monitor.
2
Stop, but do not uninstall yet, the old Directory Analyzer agent running on the domain controllers you just added.
3
Test these domain controllers in Active Directory Health.
4
If everything looks good, uninstall the old Directory Analyzer agents on the monitored domain controllers.
5
Add a few more domain controllers to the list of monitored domain controllers.
6
Test these domain controllers in Active Directory Health.
7
If everything looks good, uninstall the old Directory Analyzer agents on the monitored domain controllers.
8
Repeat steps 5 through 7 until all of your domain controllers are monitored by the Active Directory Health Agent pool.
To switch right away
1
Deploy the number of required agents and add the domain controllers.
2
Shut down the old Directory Analyzer agents.
3
Test Active Directory Health for a period of time.
4
Remove the old Directory Analyzer agents.

More resources

Additional information is available from the following:

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Online product documentation (https://support.quest.com/active-administrator/8.6/technical-documents)
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The Active Administrator Community (https://www.quest.com/community/products/active-administrator)

Globalization

This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.

This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.

About us

Quest provides software solutions for the rapidly-changing world of enterprise IT. We help simplify the challenges caused by data explosion, cloud expansion, hybrid datacenters, security threats, and regulatory requirements. We are a global provider to 130,000 companies across 100 countries, including 95% of the Fortune 500 and 90% of the Global 1000. Since 1987, we have built a portfolio of solutions that now includes database management, data protection, identity and access management, Microsoft platform management, and unified endpoint management. With Quest, organizations spend less time on IT administration and more time on business innovation. For more information, visit www.quest.com.

Technical support resources

Technical support is available to Quest customers with a valid maintenance contract and customers who have trial versions. You can access the Quest Support Portal at https://support.quest.com.

The Support Portal provides self-help tools you can use to solve problems quickly and independently, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The Support Portal enables you to:

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Submit and manage a Service Request.
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View Knowledge Base articles.
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Sign up for product notifications.
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Download software and technical documentation.
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View how-to-videos.
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Engage in community discussions.
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Chat with support engineers online.
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View services to assist you with your product.

 

 

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Active Administrator Release Notes
Updated - January 2024
Software Version - 8.7
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