Active Directory: Modernization And Upgrades

If your business is like most, you’ve relied on Active Directory for decades. It’s the backbone of any business’ IT environment, managing access across the entire workspace.

But without a modern and up-to-date AD implementation, businesses are ill-equipped to handle businesses environment—in terms of both performance and security.

As business has changed over the years, the demands on and requirements of directory services has only increased in complexity, scope, and size—but that hasn’t been reflected in existing deployments of Active Directory. To address this, we help clients modernize and upgrade their AD infrastructure.

In the active directory space, modernization is sometimes a term that gets bandied about to mean several different things. Whether you’re talking consolidation, restructuring, or migration, modernization is part of the conversation. It’s also a critical tool in cybersecurity.

Modernization means optimization—a sort of comprehensive, deep-dive tune up of the entire environment to reduce clutter and reallocate resources.

Sometimes even a thorough scrubbing and optimization isn’t enough to meet the growing demands of your business. Or perhaps your formerly adequate implementations aren’t performing as well in an increasingly remote and hybrid working landscape. Whatever the case may be, the decision to upgrade your Active Directory represents a big investment for any business—and one that every business will need to make soon, as new working arrangements become the norm.

Level Solutions Group works with clients to make the upgrade process as painless as possible. Whether your business needs an on-premise solution implemented or you’re ready to make the move to a cloud-based directory like Azure Active Directory, our tech experts can guide and shepard you through the process.

Calling in the experts to go through your AD environment and performing some basic hygiene is the first step. Taking a close look under the hood (so to speak), we’ll be able to redistribute and reallocate resources of your directory services to optimize performance (whatever that means for your business).

On the other hand, if your business needs to go for a complete overhaul, our team of tech experts can help you understand your choices and identify the best solution for your business, as well as assisting with delivery, implementation and launch.

When it’s time to get serious about overhauling your Active Directory, Level Solutions Group can help you upgrade and modernize your directory services. Ready to talk? Contact us today and get started.

And stay tuned to this space for the next installment in our Active Directory series for a closer look at Enhanced Security options.