Quest Software Awarded at Microsoft Tech-Ed

Quest Software, Inc. (www.quest.com), a provider of application, database and Windows management solutions, announced that five of its software solutions for management of the Windows platform have been honored with multiple industry awards. The announcements were made at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005.

Quest Collaboration Services for Exchange won the Best of Tech-Ed 2005 Award in the Productivity and Collaboration product category. Winners were selected from a field that included more than 260 entries in 11 categories, and were judged by technical editors from Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

“Quest Collaboration Services for Exchange enables disparate Exchange organizations to share Global Address Lists (GAL) and free/busy information without trusts or complicated federation solutions,” said Mike Otey, senior technical editor for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

Quest Archive Manager for Exchange took top honors in the category of Exchange Archiving for MSD2D.com’s fourth annual “People's Choice” awards, as voted on by members of the IT community.

In addition, three Quest products won Target Awards, as voted on by readers of W2Knews. Quest ActiveRoles Direct received the most votes in the Active Directory Management category. Quest ActiveRoles Server won in the Domain Management category and Quest ERDisk in the Emergency (Disk) Management category.

“Once again, Microsoft Tech-Ed was a great success for Quest. We had many speakers in conference sessions and great participation at our exhibit hall booth. This industry recognition is a great honor and the perfect culmination of Tech-Ed,” said David Waugh, vice president, product management, Windows Management solutions, Quest Software.

Quest Software, Microsoft's 2004 Global Independent Software Vendor Partner of the Year, provides solutions that simplify, automate and secure Active Directory, Exchange and Windows environments. Quest's Windows Management products deliver comprehensive capabilities for secure Windows management and migration.