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:
- Simplify Your Exchange Migration with NetIQ Exchange Migrator
- 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
- What's New in Directory and Resource Administrator 8.0
- Automated Change Control and Entitlement Delegation for Windows Server
- How DHL Reduced Downtime and Administration Costs Across Active Directory
- What’s New in Group Policy Administrator 5.0
- Introducing NetIQ Change Administrator
- Command and Control: Change Monitoring and Auditing Solutions for Active Directory
- Leveraging Group Policy to Prevent Downtime With Windows XP SP2 Rollouts
- Creating a Group Policy Change Control Environment
- Effective Change Monitoring & Audit for Active Directory
- Monitoring Account Changes within Active Directory
- What's New in NetIQ Group Policy Guardian 2.0
- Configuring the Proxy Account in NetIQ Group Policy Administrator
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
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
What's New in Directory and Resource Administrator 8.0
As the primary data store for confidential information such as Windows user accounts, Exchange
Join NetIQ in this Admin In Action webinar, "What's New in Directory and Resource Administrator 8.0" and discover:
- Challenges organizations face when trying to manage changes to Active Directory
- Where and how organizations are using Directory and Resource Administrator to help improve administrative efficiencies, while minimizing uncontrolled or unauthorized changes to Active Directory
- How the new DRA 8.0 further empowers administrative teams with new and improved features such as temporary group assignment, enhancements to the recycle bin, and more
Automated Change Control and Entitlement Delegation for Windows Server
In most organizations, Windows server administration entitlements take the route of more is better. Likewise, IT Managers are often forced to grant employees broad, powerful, and permanent privileges to production servers in order to accomplish narrow tasks that need to be done only infrequently. With compliance and operational efficiencies at the forefront of most IT initiatives, that way of doing business is no longer an option. Unfortunately, managing entitlements and change activity on Windows servers is not practical through a manual approach and is unmanageable with native tools. Moreover, to meet auditors' demands for greater change control, IT organizations have been forced to create homegrown "firecall" systems or manage permissions manually.
Join NetIQ for Automated Change Control and Entitlement Delegation for Windows Server and hear how to:
- Implement effective change control on servers
- Leverage entitlement and activity reports to assure policy and regulatory compliance
- Increase operational integrity and security of your servers through the use of just-in-time permissions and granular access control
- Assure changes are implemented and validated
How DHL Reduced Downtime and Administration Costs Across Active Directory
Maximizing an investment in Active Directory and Group Policy has proved challenging, especially when trying to use native tools across increasingly complex environments. More often than not, organizations become bogged down with the administrative overhead, have to delegate full administrative rights-and end up with poor security and ineffective management.
Join DHL and Attachmate in this informative customer-led Webinar, "How DHL Reduced Downtime and Administration Costs Across Active Directory," and see how DHL is using NetIQ's Security Administration Suite to control changes across both Active Directory and Group Policy. You will learn how to:
- Improve automation and delegation of tasks to less-expensive resources, while still maintaining control
- Reduce risks from uncontrolled and unmanaged changes
- Show significant ROI from reduced downtime and lower administration costs
What's New in Group Policy Administrator 5.0
Managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) effectively is essential to increasing operational integrity and compliance with auditors.
Learn how this product's new capabilities can help you meet additional compliance requirements by:
- Ensuring enterprise consistency enforcement with one button automation to synchronize GPO changes enterprise-wide
- Providing centralized management of GPOs regardless of where the GPO is deployed, even across trust boundaries
- Delivering advanced RSoP-based diagnostics by using RSoP information to diagnose and trouble shoot GPO behavior
- Supplying after-hours GPO deployment using the Windows Task Scheduler
- Providing view/audit change activity for a particular GPO via integration with NetIQ Group Policy Guardian
Get the information you need to more efficiently and securely delegate administration of Group Policy now!
NetIQ Change Administrator
Today auditors and regulations are requiring evidence that only authorized individuals have access to key servers and that when access is authorized, it is limited to the minimum necessary to do the job. Learn how NetIQ Change Administrator will enable you to meet your auditor’s demands and develop a strong change control process that enables you to:
- Increase control changes on servers by limiting native permissions
- Limit operator activity on "material" production servers
- Offer "just in time" permissions to administrators
- Provide delegated, task-specific permissions
- Run powerful and detailed activity and entitlement reports
Learn how to meet your compliance regulations by taking charge of change control on servers with NetIQ.
Command and Control: Change Monitoring and Auditing Solutions for Active Directory
View the replay of the online event, Command and Control: Change Monitoring and Auditing Solutions for Active Directory, and hear from hear from NetIQ's experts on:
- The risks of uncontrolled changes to Active Directory
- The difference between managed and unmanaged changes
- Your auditors' expectations for change controls
- How to leverage existing investments in Microsoft to improve change controls
Leveraging Group Policy to Prevent Downtime with Windows XP SP 2 Rollouts
To help our customers grapple with the recent XP SP2 release, NetIQ has delivered an Leveraging Group Policy to Prevent Downtime With Windows XP SP2 Rollouts.
During this session, you will learn how you can leverage Group Policy with the new security features of SP2 while overcoming any potential compatibility issues.
Creating a Group Policy Change Control Environment
An effective Group Policy change control system is the key to building a powerful central management system as well as protecting your network’s security and availability. Join NetIQ for Creating a Group Policy Change Control Environment webinar to learn how NetIQ Group Policy Administrator and NetIQ Group Policy Guardian can help you:
- Create a safe, offline environment for Group Policy Changes
- Thoroughly test and plan changes to Group Policy Objects to minimize any unintended consequences
- Ensure proper separation of duties
- Comply with new regulations and requirements using powerful audit and report features
- Increase management visibility with flexible, knowledge-rich reporting capabilities
Get the information you need to prevent unplanned and potentially catastrophic changes to your network.
Effective Change Monitoring & Audit for Active Directory
Do you need change monitoring and auditing for Active Directory? NetIQ Change Guardian for Active Directory delivers real-time monitoring and detailed reporting of changes across your Active Directory environment. During this 30-minute session, you will see how this product:
- Monitors changes based on risk to the Active Directory environment, allowing organizations greater flexibility in how and when they are alerted on changes, and aiding in response prioritization.
- Enhances existing Active Directory change processes by not requiring organizations to redesign their change processes, and by providing immediate value-added benefit to any defined or ad-hoc change processes.
- Leverages common infrastructures, reducing the number of concerns associated with deploying new infrastructure, or the implications of having to learn a new technology.
Monitoring Account Changes within Active Directory
As external and industry regulations proliferate, companies are spending more time and money safeguarding company assets. Active Directory security is often a large part of their regulatory compliance efforts because it serves as a central repository for the Windows security model. Join NetIQ technical experts for Monitoring Account Changes within Active Directory using NetIQ Security Manager™ and Directory and Resource Administrator™. During our 30-minute webinar, you will learn how to monitor and report on a variety of account changes within Active Directory, including:
- Changes made by authorized users or via an authorized tool
- Changes made by non-authorized tools or users
- Changes to important Active Directory objects that can affect the security, availability or integrity of the Active Directory environment
We will also discuss NetIQ Change Guardian for Active Directory. When combined with NetIQ Security Manager, this new product provides historical change information and auditor-friendly reports to help assure your compliance needs for Active Directory.
What's New in NetIQ Group Policy Guardian 2.0
Whether you run a small upstart or an enterprise with hundreds of thousands of customers, the recently released NetIQ Group Policy Guardian 2.0 can help you maintain a secure and reliable Windows environment with its new closed-loop change monitoring, enhanced reporting and ease of use capabilities.
This 30-minute webinar explores NetIQ Group Policy Guardian’s newest features and functionality. During this session, we’ll demonstrate NetIQ Group Policy Guardian’s:
- Vastly improved installation functionality which includes prerequisite checking, a configuration wizard and a streamlined process that makes deployment faster and simpler
- Closed-loop change monitoring capabilities, including unmanaged change identification (for example. changes to Group Policy made outside of NetIQ Group Policy Administrator)
- Enhanced reporting features that enable you to filter results based upon multiple parameters including OU, site and GPO, as well as extend support to include the latest Windows 2003 settings
Configuring the Proxy Account in NetIQ Group Policy Administrator
Tune into this interactive session to see how you can set up the proxy account using NetIQ Group Policy Administrator. In this session, we’ll explore:
- The proxy account in NetIQ Group Policy Administrator
- The value of using a proxy-based solution
- How to enable proxy configurations using NetIQ Group Policy Administrator
