Yea, we love CAAD. Same sentiments. That's one of the ones we own that scares me because ActiveRolesServer has DS auditing in it.We didn't get the Exchange stuff but we bought CAAD for compliance issues. It's also great for reigning in people who are doing things they aren't supposed to, just make a custom filter for it and email each transgression to their supervisor. We do have Quest MessageStats for Exchange and that seems pretty cool but I don't mess with it much.
We already own the original ActiveRoles which they rebranded ActiveRolesDirect when they made the Aelita acquisition that gave them ActiveRolesServer (was Enterprise Directory Manager). ARD is a pretty OK product compared to the alternative we had at the time but ARS is a huge and complex investment. How they meld all these together will be very interesting...especially some of the contracts. -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quest Acquires Netpro ChangeAuditor for Exchange. I can't say enough good words about it. Now, that being said, I've had more than one Exchange administrator get peeved at me about it, but they'll live. It allows management to get reports about who has accessed what. And what they did while they were there. Superb email auditing tool. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quest Acquires Netpro I too am intrigued by ADMC and need to find the time to check out TurboChargeAD.org. To be fair Quest has been good to the community in that space too with the free AD cmdlets and PowerGUI.org. I'm curious which of the NetPro products it is you are pushing to your clients? I'm worried about the ones we have as well because there is huge overlap with existing Quest products. -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 12:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quest Acquires Netpro Gil is "down under" this week. I plan on calling/badgering him about this when he gets back. :-P NetPro recently came out with a tool that I like a lot and I've pushed it pretty hard with my clients. I would really hate to see it disappear. Not to mention that their recently released ADMC looks VERY cool. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 3:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quest Acquires Netpro Heck, I am that market....you think you are bugged? We have 3 NetPro products and a long term relationship with them, we had some Banyan utils from them. I shudder to think how long I've known Gil, at least 15 years now. One of my friends at NetPro worked as a VP for another company that Q****t aquired a while back and he was delighted to jump ship to NetPro, I'll bet he is REALLY bugged :-( -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quest Acquires Netpro Yeah, but they've also bought the mid-market. Which bugs the crap outta me. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quest Acquires Netpro I like what Mark said on activedir..." $78Million to buy DEC/TEC - Bargain ;-) " -----Original Message----- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quest Acquires Netpro www.quest.com/netpro There goes the neighborhood, back to the high-priced Quest software for AD solutions, instead of an affordable Netpro solution. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
