Active Directory Cloning

Building a test environment is crucial

Without a test environment, changes rolled into production can have a detrimental effect on the production environment. With SecFrame’s AD-Clone service a clone of a production Active Directory domain is completed a few clicks.

Key items gained with AD-Clone:

• Development of any tools and see how they act in your environment
• Testing against production like AD environment

Permissions required for this service:

• No need for a privileged account on the source domain
• Read Only domain user account. In many environments, this is often a standard domain user account

  Passwords are not copied across environments

Permissions Required On the Target/Testing domain:

• A domain administrator account.

  Full domain administration is needed because you are building a complete new structure: copies of the OUs, users, groups. You are creating a new domain.

With this service you get a method to repeat copy a production domain into a test domain

1. You provide access to the empty target domain
2. I connect the domains and prepare them for cloning
3. Choose object types to copy
4. Sit back and let the the process work

Once completed you will have a functioning test environment.