Active Directory Services designed to address your Requirements.
Savvis Directory Service
With Savvis Directory Service, your organization is able to capture key benefits, including the following:
- Increased ability to make changes quickly and immediately in Active Directory.
- Improved integration with your organizational infrastructure.
- Important integration with key applications that require schema extensions such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft System Center and certain Citrix applications.
You’ll also benefit from Savvis’ many years of hosting and infrastructure management experience, and a performance-based Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Specifically, the service can help your organization to cost-effectively administer Active Directory updates by:
- Permitting you to make changes directly in Active Directory, without having to contact Savvis. Examples of such changes include: user and group creation, service account creation, group membership modification, reactivation of locked accounts and password resets.
- Integrating Savvis Active Directory activity with your organizational infrastructure, resulting in the ability to perform a “single sign-on” to your organizational environment. Our service permits you to utilize Active Directory functionality such as MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing) routing, “Contacts,” “Printers,” and “Address Book” attributes. The service also facilitates integration with external Identity Stores.
- Allowing you to make certain baseline security changes to your environment, as determined by your security policies and business needs.
- Providing you with the flexibility to make an unlimited number of monthly change-requests on your own.
Savvis Shared Multi-Tenant Active Directory Forest
Our Shared Multi-Tenant Active Directory Forest service is best-suited for organizations with lower volumes of monthly Active Directory changes and/or with lower IT budgets than those who select Savvis Directory Services. Offered on a complimentary basis with your Managed Hosting Services at our data center locations, the service provides you with the following capabilities:
- A fully-managed component of the identity management solutions associated with your Managed Hosting environment.
- Single log-in functionality, across compatible or supported hosting services at Savvis.
- A regional Tiered Domain structure, with a global presence in select Savvis datacenters.
- A defined number of change-requests that can be made each month, as requested through the Savvis Service Desk.
Selecting the Active Directory service that’s best-suited for you.
The comprehensive Savvis Directory Services offering can meet the requirements of organizations that have a high volume of monthly Active Directory changes, prefer to make their Active Directory updates autonomously, need integration with applications that require schema modifications and utilize extensive Active Directory attributes and functionality.
The Shared Multi-Tenant Active Directory Forest can meet the requirements of organizations who make fewer monthly Active Directory changes, prefer to work directly with the Savvis Service Desk when making changes and require single sign-on capabilities across their Managed Hosting Services infrastructure at Savvis.