Microsoft Active Directory consulting
Attackers go after Active Directory first because one weak delegation can hand over the whole estate. DESSS assesses, hardens, restructures, and migrates AD without breaking the applications that silently depend on it.
CYBERSECURITY
What is Microsoft Active Directory
Active Directory Domain Services is the on-premise identity backbone of most Microsoft environments: it holds your users, groups, computers, Group Policy, DNS, and the Kerberos trust that almost every internal application depends on.
WHAT WE IMPLEMENT
10 products and modules
The Microsoft Active Directory capabilities DESSS designs, deploys, and hands over — each one scoped on its own so a programme can start where the risk is highest.
- AD DS Design and Deployment
- AD Security Assessment and Remediation
- AD Migration and Domain Consolidation
- Tiered Administration and Privileged Access
- Group Policy Management and Hardening
- Active Directory Certificate Services PKI
- ADFS and Federation Modernization
- DNS DHCP and Sites Services
- AD Backup and Forest Recovery
- AD Monitoring and Auditing
HOW TO ENGAGE
5 ways to work with us
Engage DESSS at whatever depth the work needs — independent advice before budget is committed, full delivery against an agreed blueprint, or ongoing support from the team that built it.
- Consulting & Advisory
- Implementation
- Integration & Migration
- Managed Support
- Training & Change Management
SERVICES ON THIS PLATFORM
Advice, delivery, or managed service
The same Microsoft Active Directory team across the whole lifecycle — assessment and roadmap, implementation, integration and migration, managed support, and the enablement that makes it stick.
Consulting & Advisory on Microsoft Active Directory
Assessment, platform selection, business case, and roadmap — before you commit budget.
Implementation on Microsoft Active Directory
Full delivery to an agreed blueprint, with weekly demos and named deliverables at every step.
Integration & Migration on Microsoft Active Directory
Connecting and modernizing the systems the work depends on, with validated data and monitored interfaces.
Managed Support on Microsoft Active Directory
Monitoring, incident handling, enhancements, and release management from the team that built it.
Training & Change Management on Microsoft Active Directory
Role-based enablement that turns a working system into an adopted one.
Active Directory Domain Services is the on-premise identity backbone of most Microsoft environments: it holds your users, groups, computers, Group Policy, DNS, and the Kerberos trust that almost every internal application depends on. Whether it is right for you depends on your operational structure, reporting complexity, compliance obligations, and growth plans — our free discovery session benchmarks Microsoft Active Directory against the realistic alternatives for your specific case, including doing nothing.
Everything listed on this page: AD DS Design and Deployment , AD Security Assessment and Remediation , AD Migration and Domain Consolidation, Tiered Administration and Privileged Access, Group Policy Management and Hardening, Active Directory Certificate Services PKI, ADFS and Federation Modernization, DNS DHCP and Sites Services, and more. Each product page sets out the full delivery workflow, the deliverables at each step, and a realistic duration.
Yes. Integration with the surrounding systems — ERP, CRM, identity, finance, analytics, and operational tools — is designed during the blueprint stage and delivered with validated data and monitored interfaces, not bolted on after go-live.
Cost varies with licensing, scope, customization, integration count, and support model. After a discovery session DESSS provides a written estimate with total cost of ownership modeling, so there are no mid-project surprises.
The same DESSS consultants who delivered the work staff hypercare and ongoing managed support for Microsoft Active Directory — no handoff to a team that has never seen your configuration.
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