Commvault has introduced an upcoming expansion of its platform to provide full and automated forest recovery for the world’s most widely used enterprise identity and access solution, Microsoft Active Directory.
Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition is the latest addition to the Commvault Cloud platform, which already protects a wide array of workloads and is designed to keep customers resilient, operational, and in a state of continuous business.
Active Directory, often called the backbone of enterprise IT, manages authentication and controls access to critical business systems, protecting everything from workstation logins to physical building access. If Active Directory goes offline, business operations can come to a halt. Bad actors know this all too well, which is why they make Active Directory a primary target in cyberattacks.
Being able to recover Active Directory quickly is vital to business continuity, yet traditionally has been very hard to do, requiring intricate, time-consuming, manual processes, as described by Microsoft’s Forest Recovery Guide.
Commvault’s Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition brings a new level of resilience to Active Directory by enabling automated, rapid recovery of the Active Directory forest, which includes users, groups, permissions, and domain controllers across the organization. This new offering eliminates slow and error-prone manual processes often associated with Active Directory forest recoveries. With Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition, organizations will be able to:
- Make Active Directory recovery easier via automated runbooks: Automated forest recovery runbooks streamline the multi-step process required for Active Directory forest recovery, including tasks like transferring key roles from an unavailable domain controller to a functioning one, which is essential for a clean recovery. These runbooks can also be used for regular testing in non-production environments to enhance cyber readiness.
- Enable fast recovery of the most important Active Directory infrastructure: visual topology views of an organization’s Active Directory environment enable simple and rapid identification of which domain controllers to restore first and how they should be recovered to accelerate availability of Active Directory services.
- Accelerate recovery times and advance resilience: manually recovering an Active Directory forest can take days or even weeks to complete, but, with the new options, organizations can recover it in a fraction of the time. Commvault’s Cloud platform integrates Active Directory forest recovery with granular recovery of both Active Directory and Entra ID, the cloud-based identity service, providing comprehensive protection.
Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition is targeted for general availability within the first half of 2025 and will be priced per user.
For more information
To learn more and demo the solution, visit the Commvault Active Directory solution page
