Case Study: UK government agency achieves hours-level Active Directory disaster recovery with Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition

Government agency accelerates AD disaster recovery amid growing cyberthreats

A UK government agency that supports critical national infrastructure faced rising cyberthreats and an increasingly complex Active Directory estate — roughly 10 domains across eight forests serving 12,000 users. Native, manual recovery guidance was lengthy, risky and impractical, leaving the agency exposed to potentially catastrophic downtime that would disrupt essential public services.

The agency deployed Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition to automate and accelerate forest- and domain-level recovery, reduce human error, and protect backups from compromise. The solution condenses a cumbersome process into hours instead of days or weeks, adds quality checks and forensic visibility, and gives leadership confidence that identity services can be restored quickly and securely.