Imanami is pleased to announce GroupID 6, available immediately for customers and evaluators. GroupID 6 continues to promote directory and group management for Active Directory, bringing three new key features into the GroupID suite: Active Directory history tracking Self Service Password Reset Ability for users to opt in to smart groups Active Directory history tracking…
Every organization has distribution lists and security groups, usually lots and lots of them (that’s a technical term meaning greater than the number of users). Sometimes Active Directory is just bursting with AD groups. Every single one of these groups gives access to information, files and folders, or resources of some kind. So, obviously, accurate Active…
Change in Active Directory is a constant never ending thing. That’s my quote, not very literary, but let me temper it with these classics: “It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.” –Isaac Asimov “There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus “When it’s time to change, you’ve…
I saw an interesting article recently from WindowsIT Pro Magazine that asked if your organization was prepared for what could very likely be a year of greater than normal employee turnover. Then, I got an email from LinkedIn that pointed out all of my contacts who had changed jobs in the past year. That number…
I saw a couple of things in the media this week that made me think about the value of specialization. The first was a Charlie Rose interview with Jack Dorsey, the founder of Square. In the interview Jack talks about how difficult it is to create simple solutions in a complicated world. The second was…
Everybody knows you have to get users in Active Directory. With the incredible market share that Active Directory has, it’s just the first step to doing anything for the vast majority of organizations. When an employee starts, you want that employee as a user in Active Directory immediately so they can start working. Incredibly, this…
A quick story. Two blogs run the same poll about securing SharePoint using groups. One blog is SharePoint-centric. The other blog is Active Directory-centric. The question that has been on everybody’s mind is, how will the results differ? The question was simple: do you use Active Directory groups, SharePoint groups or both to secure site…
When was the last time you checked to see if your Active Directory user accounts matched your HRIS? What about a quick check to see if everyone had the correct department, phone number, or if they even had a mobile phone listed? There are obvious security advantages to having the correct accounts have access to…
I follow Twitter to see what people are saying and tweeting about Active Directory. Sometimes it’s educational, sometimes it’s hysterical and sometimes it’s both. Ron Fischer (@ronzobot) recently had one of my favorite Active Directory tweets to date. He keenly observed, “You’re not really an employee until Active Directory says so…” Like all great tweets,…
While our GroupID Synchronize product is widely known for its provisioning and directory synchronization capabilities, we also have quite a customer base using it exclusively for GAL synchronization. I wrote about how to do it in GAL Synchronization between Forests but want to comment a bit more on how simple it is to do. Many…