In this Skills 101 session, learn what’s new in Recovery Manager for Active Directory (RMAD) 10.4 and why these enhancements matter when reliable recovery is critical. Brian Heimer, Solutions Architect at Quest, walks through the most impactful updates designed to simplify recovery operations, improve security, and reduce infrastructure complexity.
This video covers key improvements such as LDAPS certificate backup support, a new persistent session history feature, and the removal of the SQL Server dependency in favor of a lightweight SQLite database. You’ll also get a deep dive into Standby Forest Provisioning for Azure, showing how you can continuously recover Active Directory into isolated Azure environments, retain multiple recovery instances, and dramatically reduce recovery time during an actual disaster—while avoiding unnecessary compute costs.
The session includes a practical, step-by-step walkthrough of configuring Azure file shares for backup storage, setting up Azure networking resources, running verification and recovery jobs, managing standby instances, and scheduling automated recoveries. By the end, you’ll understand how RMAD 10.4 enables faster, more predictable, and more secure Active Directory recovery using modern cloud-based approaches.
