World Premiere
in the Admin Room
A mockumentary that follows two professionals experiencing
the same outage in dramatically different ways.
One entered survival mode. One went home on time.
One entered survival mode.
One went home on time.
Runtime: 2 Minutes, 23 Seconds
“When Active Directory goes down,
that’s when the real test begins.”
Turn the War Room into a Snore Room
We have been conditioned to treat Active Directory recovery like a crisis ritual. When identity goes down, we are told to stock the war room, open the runbooks, queue the bridge calls, load up on energy drinks, and accept fight-or-flight as part of the job.
But when Active Directory is offline, panic does not restore identity. Recovery does.
Recover Active Directory in Minutes
— Without the Theater
Cayosoft Guardian Instant Forest Recovery simplifies recovery by maintaining a clean standby forest that is continuously validated and always ready to cutover.
customer stories
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Active Directory Recovered in Minutes
A State’s IT Department recovered after a disaster with Cayosoft where another vendor failed.
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Team Confessionals
Meet the Team
Rick Dalton
IT Infrastructure Manager and Director of War Room Operations
Rick has spent his career exploring the intricacies of Active Directory. He has written the runbooks, run the drills, and stocked his war room.
He’s been taught that when a major outages happens, operational panic is part of the job .
“Psychological stress is part of the job.”
“We’re already back online.”
Maya Rao
Senior Identity Engineer
Maya believes outages should be boring.
While others search for clean backups, rebuild infrastructure, and validate recovery processes under pressure, Maya prefers solving problems before they become emergencies.
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2025 Enterprise IT Awards Product of the Year
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The Real Story Behind The Mockumentary
The comedy is fictional. The recovery challenge is not. No one has time for disaster recovery theater.
The Making of 2:00 PM in the Admin Room
This project started with a simple belief: Active Directory recovery shouldn’t require a war room.
At Cayosoft, we’ve always challenged the industry’s assumption that panic, chaos, and all-hands-on-deck disasters are just part of the process. We think there’s a better way.
While the actors in this mockumentary are AI-generated, the story is entirely human. We’ve all worked with a Rick, a Maya, or someone facing the same challenges. This was our way of highlighting a different approach: less chaos, more confidence, and recovery that simply works.
While we embraced AI-driven production for this ad, we engaged an entirely human team of writers, video production artists, and creative engineers.
