{"id":1202,"date":"2008-09-12T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T08:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/windows-management-tools-from-quest.htm"},"modified":"2008-09-12T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T09:37:43","slug":"windows-management-tools-from-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/windows-management-tools-from-quest.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows Management Tools from Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of yesterday with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quest-software.co.uk\/\">Quest Software<\/a>, as they explained the various tools that they have that can help to expand and extend off the shelf infrastructure products from companies like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve performed a large infrastructure migration or implementation, the chances are that you&#8217;ve come across Quest at some point (and I knew they had grown rapidly in recent years) but I hadn&#8217;t realised just how many tools they had available.<\/p>\n<p>We spent 4 hours talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quest-software.co.uk\/windows-management\/\">Windows Management tools<\/a> (without even touching on Application Management or Database Management) so clearly there is too much there for a blog post but it&#8217;s worth taking a look at their website some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of yesterday with Quest Software, as they explained the various tools that they have that can help to expand and extend off the shelf infrastructure products from companies like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun. 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