Welcome to the Commvault Cloud Community

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition. This offering builds on our existing AD protection capabilities, which include change detection and granular object-level restores, and brings a new level of resilience by enabling automated, rapid recovery of the Active Directory forest. AD Recovery is Foundational to Continuous Business Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is the cornerstone of most enterprise IT networks, providing essential authentication and authorization for business-critical applications and resources. When AD is damaged or taken completely offline, the critical applications and services it supports become inaccessible. Consider the impact: Bank staff can't access customer accounts. Doctors and nurses can't access medical records. Coders and developers can't publish code. Teams can't collaborate or chat to get work done. Without AD, the business cannot continue. Cybercriminals know this, which is why they make AD a primary target in an estimated 9 out of 10 cyberattacks**. When disaster strikes, recovering Active Directory is vital, yet traditionally has been very hard to do, requiring intricate, time-consuming, manual processes. With ransomware increasingly targeting critical identity infrastructure, having a well-documented and frequently tested recovery plan to restore your entire Active Directory to a pre-attack state is critical. The Complexities of Active Directory Forest Recovery Microsoft provides prescriptive guidance on rebuilding an entire AD forest after a catastrophic disaster in their Active Directory Forest Recovery Guide. Due to the complex nature of AD, the elements involved in a full forest recovery are rigid, prescriptive, time-consuming, and highly susceptible to human error. Depending on the complexity of your AD architecture, the procedure can involve 50 to 100 or even more tasks. Due to AD's distributed nature and multi-master architecture, restoring it demands meticulous coordination during recovery. It’s not possible to simply restore domain controllers from backup and call it a day. There are dozens of intricate hygiene steps that must be performed at specific points during the forest recovery. If these steps aren’t followed, you risk introducing new corruption or inconsistencies in the recovered environment Relying on a manual disaster or cyber recovery plan and out-of-the-box tools could mean it takes days to restore an entire AD forest. In a disaster, time is of the essence, and the longer it takes to restore AD back to a working state, the greater the disruption to your business. Automate and Accelerate AD recovery with Commvault Cloud Commvault Cloud for Active Directory Enterprise Edition provides automated and full forest recovery for Active Directory that enables rapid restoration of the AD forest to a pre-attack state. This automation eliminates slow and error-prone manual processes, reducing the risk of errors and accelerating recovery times. Here’s how it works: Make AD recovery a snap via automated runbooks: Automated forest recovery runbooks orchestrate the multi-step process required for AD forest recovery, including the critical AD hygiene tasks required to verify consistency in the recovered directory, such as seizing FSMO roles and adjusting the RID pool. These runbooks also can be used for regular testing in non-production environments to enhance cyber readiness. Enable fast recovery of the most important AD infrastructure: Visual topology views of your AD environment enable simple and rapid identification of which domain controllers to restore first and how they should be recovered to accelerate the availability of AD services. Track recovery progress with step-by-step runbook views: Prescriptive runbook views of the recovery process provide transparency and fine-grained control, allowing you to easily tailor the workflow to your environment. During recovery, you have visibility into where you are in the process and how long until your Active Directory is back online. Accelerate recovery times and advance resilience Manually recovering an AD forest can take days or even weeks to complete, but with Commvault, you can recover it in a fraction of the time. Commvault Cloud integrates AD forest recovery with granular recovery of both AD and Entra ID, providing comprehensive protection. Visit our Active Directory solution page to learn more or experience the solution firsthand through our interactive walk-through demo. ** Sheridan, K. (2021, May 3). Researchers Explore Active Directory Attack Vectors. Dark Reading.

Commvault will be back at RSAC -- April 28 - May 1, 2025, in San Francisco. Let us know if you plan to be there, and make sure to stop by! Here are the highlights. Get all the details and book a meeting with our on-site team here. Rewind to the future Take an other-worldly trip through the fastest, most complete recovery anywhere at Booth N-5678 in North Expo. Hands-on Demo Get your hands on the solutions that make it possible at Booth N-4308, also in North Expo. Speaking Session A Modern Data Protection Architecture to Support Continuous BusinessWednesday, April 30th at 2:10pmSpeaker: Vidya Shankaran, Commvault Field CTO Public Sector Day (April 28) Commvault is an exhibiting sponsor at Carahsoft’s Public Sector Day. Stop by to learn more about Commvault’s Cyber Resiliency offerings.

In October, I gave you a sneak peak of the Readiverse launch. I also promised it was just the beginning of our new vision for cyber resilience and readiness education. Today, I’m excited to make good on that promise with two new, exciting improvements to the Readiverse. A new Cyber Resilience Certification course The Readiverse now offers a self-guided, online, Cyber Resilience Certification Course . The course focuses on the fundamental principles of cyber resilience, covering topics such as early warning systems, threat detection, and advanced recovery techniques. Participants gain hands-on experience in configuring and integrating Commvault solutions, including mastering the art of Cleanroom Recovery to minimize downtime and data loss. Through a blend of self-paced e-learning modules and hands-on lab sessions, you’ll gain the practical skills and knowledge to protect your organization's assets and the confidence and peace of mind you have the latest skills and knowledge in cyber resilience. A new learning experience We are excited to present this new certification course and our many other learning resources through a new learning experience that makes accessing training, discovering courses, and tracking progress much easier. As part of this process, we are streamlining the experience and are moving away from having separate credentials for the learning hub. To access Readiverse, you can now use your existing Commvault credentials, which are the same ones you already use to access the Support Portal, Commvault Cloud SaaS, and the Commvault Community. Any learning that is currently in progress will be available in your profile in Readiverse. If you’d like to complete your learning experience in the previous system, you can continue to access it here until February 28, 2025. After this date, all learning will fully transition to Readiverse. For partners, we’re working integrating our new learning experience in time for the new partner year. In the interim, partners can continue to access training materials via the partner portal, including the Cyber Resilience Certification for partners. If you have any questions or need support during this transition, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team at enablement-help@commvault.com. Reach a higher plane of learning and resilience today Explore the new Readiverse experience at https://readiverse.commvault.com and sign up for the new Cyber Resilience Certification Course here. Stay tuned for more Readiverse updates. Warm regards,Damian Andre on behalf of the entire Readiverse team