Case Study: Global Manufacturing Company minimizes downtime and restores Active Directory in hours with Quest

Global manufacturer minimizes downtime from a cyberattack or other disaster

An Italy-based global manufacturer with 3,400 employees and roughly 8,000 Active Directory objects (including about 3,000 user accounts) relied on a single AD forest spanning ~30 domain controllers worldwide. Because AD supports SAP, Azure and custom applications, the company risked major operational disruption: manual forest recovery could take days or weeks, and restoring individual deleted or modified objects often took hours or longer, leaving the business vulnerable to cyberattacks and costly downtime.

The company implemented Quest’s hybrid AD disaster recovery suite (On Demand Recovery + Recovery Manager) to centrally manage backups, create an exact virtual test copy of production AD, and automate recovery workflows. As a result, full forest recovery is now measured in hours instead of days or weeks, granular object/attribute restores take minutes (often one minute), the team can regularly test recovery procedures, and the faster recovery posture reduced cyber-insurance costs while providing greater operational confidence.