Quest's post on the 2026 State of ITDR Report highlights a stat that jumps out at me: 75%...

Quest's post on the 2026 State of ITDR Report highlights a stat that jumps out at me: 75% of organizations undertesting disaster recovery. In my experience training teams on Recovery Manager for Active Directory, that undertesting often stems from not tailoring backup cadences to the actual rate of AD changes in their environment. I've seen shops lock in a daily backup schedule without ever asking two questions: how much is our AD actually changing, and how much of that change are we willing to recreate if we have to restore from yesterday's backup? Those two questions should be driving the cadence decision, not a default setting. Leading teams we work with at LeadThem Consulting, a long-time Quest partner, get ahead by scoping recoveries from single-attribute fixes to full-forest rebuilds during planning, especially before any migration cutover. It makes me wonder, how are you measuring your AD change rate to inform your DR testing frequency? https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7455269501786333184/