A situation that would prompt the use of Quest Identity Recovery for cloud-only Entra ID objects is the accidental deletion of cloud-only users, groups, and other identity objects, administrative errors, or an identity management incident where the object does not have an on-premises source of authority. The key difference observed is that with Entra Connect synchronization, the on-premises Active Directory object is normally the source of authority. If a synchronized user is deleted in Entra ID, recovery can often be performed by restoring the on-premises AD object and allowing synchronization to recreate or restore the cloud representation depending on the scenarios and object state. My advice to others looking into using Quest Identity Recovery is to first identify the most critical identity recovery scenarios before implementing Quest Identity Recovery. Do not view it simply as a backup product, but as a part of an identity disaster recovery strategy. I have been using Quest products for almost ten years and would rate this product an eight out of ten.
A situation that would prompt the use of Quest Identity Recovery for cloud-only Entra ID objects is the accidental deletion of cloud-only users, groups, and other identity objects, administrative errors, or an identity management incident where the object does not have an on-premises source of authority. The key difference observed is that with Entra Connect synchronization, the on-premises Active Directory object is normally the source of authority. If a synchronized user is deleted in Entra ID, recovery can often be performed by restoring the on-premises AD object and allowing synchronization to recreate or restore the cloud representation depending on the scenarios and object state. My advice to others looking into using Quest Identity Recovery is to first identify the most critical identity recovery scenarios before implementing Quest Identity Recovery. Do not view it simply as a backup product, but as a part of an identity disaster recovery strategy. I have been using Quest products for almost ten years and would rate this product an eight out of ten.