Admin in Action
Sign up now for Admin in Action—a series of 30-minute webinars presented by NetIQ's product pros and designed specifically for our customers. These in-depth, interactive sessions will show you how to get the most out of your change control solutions.
Our expert team will deliver the technical tips and tricks to make your job easier and help you make your boss's day. Bring your toughest questions-our experts will be on hand for Q&A.
Click on the links below to check out these sessions:
- Centralize Identity Management for Unix, Linux and Mac Systems
- Simplify Your Exchange Migration with NetIQ Exchange Migrator
- Managing Group Policy - Securely and Efficiently
- Automate Bulk Edits Across AD with DRA
- Introduction to DRA Automation
- Automating Active Directory Administration
- Best Practices for Configuring DRA
- Detect System Changes & User Activity in Real Time
- Delegating Active Directory Administration through the Web
- Deep Dive into DRA Active Views
- Best Practices for Delegating Active Directory Administration
- Group Policy Survey Results: Hear from your Peers
- Reduce Privileged Accounts Across Your Systems
Centralize Identity Management for Unix, Linux and Mac Systems
Join NetIQ expert, Sean Jackson to learn how to leverage your existing Active Directory infrastructure to centralize identity management for Unix, Linux and Mac systems. Discover also how to manage and secure access to these critical systems using the same authentication, authorization, and Microsoft Group Policy services currently deployed for your Microsoft Windows systems. Specifically, you'll l learn how to:
- Centrally control access and authentication
- Provide role-based authorization
- Control privilege management
- Improve security controls and regulatory compliance
Don't miss this chance to learn about centralizing and securing identity management.
Simplify Your Exchange Migration with NetIQ Exchange Migrator
Are you planning to transition to Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2003 from an existing Exchange 2000 or 2003 organization? If you have an upcoming Exchange migration project, you won't want to miss this Admin in Action webinar on "Simplify Your Exchange Migration with NetIQ Exchange Migrator."
Tune in to this 30-minute webinar to discover how to reduce your migration stress level through an automated approach and learn how to:
- Address the need and challenges of migrating Exchange environments
- Reduce the complexity of the Microsoft Exchange migration effort
- Streamline and simplify the migration process
Managing Group Policy - Securely and Efficiently
View the replay of NetIQ expert, Sean Jackson, to discover how NetIQ Group Policy solutions can help you:
- Model and predict the impact of Group Policy changes before they impact your production environment, including block inheritance and link order
- Manage multi-domains and multi-forest environments from one centralized repository, regardless of the trust relationships.
- Document activities and produce a comprehensive audit trail.
- Achieve standardization and demonstrate policy and regulatory compliance.
Automate Bulk Edits Across AD with DRA
Join NetIQ for this advanced Admin in Action webinar on "Automate Bulk Edits Across AD with DRA" to improve your knowledge around using the batch update functionality within NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator (DRA). You'll discover how to reduce your editing headaches through a more automated approach. During this session, you will learn:
- Examples of how and where batch updates can (and should!) be used
- Special functions that you can quickly implement to reduce your level of effort
- Steps to assure that assistant administrators will be able to implement batch updates in DRA
You will also have the opportunity to ask our DRA experts your toughest questions.
Introduction to DRA Automation
Join NetIQ in this advanced Admin in Action webinar to gain deeper insight into the automation capabilities of DRA, including the use of triggers and policies to automate common tasks. During this session, you will learn:
- How to configure triggers and policies to extend the automation capabilities within DRA
- What to automate, and best practices for a successful implementation
- Where to find additional resources to help you create your own automation routines
If you are a DRA customer, you don't want to miss this opportunity to learn from our DRA experts.
Automating Active Directory Administration
Join NetIQ for this Admin in Action Webinar to learn about the powerful task automation capabilities offered within NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator (DRA). During this session, you will discover:
- Examples of how and where automation can help you and your team administrate Active Directory more efficiently
- Why ad-hoc approaches to automating administrative tasks may create more issues than answers
- How to increase your productivity and enable less-experienced administrators to safely and easily perform complex sets of tasks
You will also have the opportunity to ask our DRA experts your toughest questions.
Best Practices for Configuring DRA
Join NetIQ in this advanced Admin In Action Webinar to learn some best practices for configuring DRA to optimize the performance of your setup, and assure the satisfaction of your distributed administration teams. During this session, you will learn:
- In-depth knowledge of how and where you can tune the configuration parameters of DRA
- Examples of poorly configured environments and their effects upon the end-user experience
- Best practices for configuring DRA across different scenarios
You will also have the opportunity to ask our DRA experts your toughest questions.
Detect System Changes & User Activity in Real Time
Join NetIQ in this Admin-In-Action webinar to discover a new approach to detecting critical changes and monitoring user activity on your critical servers—all without the need to enable object-level auditing. NetIQ Change Guardian for Windows is a new solution offering that will help you meet your security monitoring requirements, such as those mandated in PCI-DSS Section 10; and assure the protection of your systems and data.
In this session you will learn:
- Why organizations are having to perform more detailed monitoring of their files and the activities of their users
- Recent, well-publicized events that show where current approaches to system security monitoring have failed
- How Change Guardian for Windows provides an invaluable, real-time insight into what is going on across your Windows servers—all without the need for performance-hindering native auditing
Delegating Active Directory Administration through the Web
Join NetIQ in this Admin In Action webinar to learn how the web-based administrator interface of NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator (DRA) provides a secure, safe and convenient way to delegate Active Directory (AD) administration capabilities. You’ll see how you can empower assistant administrators, your helpdesk, or even your employees to manage data in a controlled and audited way - all through their browser! In this session, you will learn:
- The complications that administrating AD through ADUC can present
- How DRA’s web-based administration alleviates native-administration issues
- The activities and tasks you can delegate using DRA’s web-based interface
Don’t miss this opportunity to ask our AD experts your toughest questions.
Deep Dive into DRA Active Views
Join NetIQ in this advanced Admin In Action webinar to learn more about the inner workings of ActiveViews. You'll discover techniques and tips to help you improve your ActiveViews to better meet your delegation requirements. During this session you will learn:
- How ActiveViews work and how to create and manipulate ActiveView rules
- The different types of ActiveViews and how to leverage them for optimal results
- Best practices for delegation and guidelines for troubleshooting your ActiveView implementations
You will also have the opportunity to ask our DRA experts your toughest questions.
Best Practices for Delegating Active Directory Administration
Join NetIQ in this Admin In Action webinar to learn how NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator (DRA) delivers role-based administration. DRA's "ActiveView" technology allows you to safely and securely delegate who can manage what objects and information across your Active Directory environments. During this session you will learn:
- Best practices for delegating administrative responsibilities across your organization
- How to plan, design and implement the ActiveViews you need to meet your delegation requirements
- In-depth information on ActiveViews to help you fine-tune and maintain your delegated environment
Don't miss this opportunity to ask our Active Directory experts your toughest questions.
Group Policy Survey Results: Hear from your Peers
Join NetIQ in this Admin In Action webinar to gain key insights from our Group Policy survey, including:
- The top issues that Group Policy is being used to address
- How organizations are approaching the management of their policy settings
- Common challenges faced during the day-to-day use of Group Policy
This key information will help you achieve end-to-end management of Group Policy and ultimately sustain optimal IT operations. Don't miss this opportunity to ask our Group Policy experts your toughest questions.
Reduce Privileged Accounts Across Your Systems
Join NetIQ for this Admin In Action webinar to learn how NetIQ Change Administrator helps organizations simplify and automate the control over "who" can administrate "what" and "when".
Through this session, you will learn how to:
- Remove the need to manage or distribute temporary administrator passwords
- Control the scope of activities that an "administrator" can perform on a server
- Quickly review the administrative entitlements across servers and their applications
