Since 2012, Jonathan Blackwell, an engineer and innovator, has provided engineering leadership that has put GroupID at the forefront of group and user management for Active Directory and Azure AD environments. His experience in development, marketing, and sales allows Jonathan to fully understand the Identity market and how buyers think.
What are Active Directory Groups? Active Directory groups are methods for collecting users, contacts, computers, and even other groups’ objects within Active Directory so that you can manage the objects in the group as a single unit. Objects in Active Directory Groups Objects that belong to a particular group are referred to as group members.…
Let’s admit it! Active Directory health check is a challenge – no matter the company size. Symptoms of Poor Active Directory Health The first indication that your organization’s Active Directory isn’t healthy is when a flood of calls comes to the help desk indicating a potential crisis is brewing. Active Directory works okay even when…
Managing Active Directory groups is probably one of the simplest tasks you perform on a regular basis. It’s right up there with resetting a password. Because it takes little effort — and even less though — it can often be easily dismissed as a routine, unimportant task. Similarly, administrators must regularly clean up user accounts and objects…
More than half of the global workforce is working remotely and as the pandemic continues to threaten health, we are looking at a prolonged period of hybrid working – from home and office in different proportions. One year later… In March 2020, companies across the US abruptly shuttered their offices and instructed employees to work…
2020 will be remembered as the year that changed us all. Concepts such as lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing were unknown to most of us. Through all the uncertainty, 2020 had its positive moments as well. We were tested and pulled from many directions, yet when it mattered, we banded together and helped each other. We gave…
COVID-19 has disrupted the way many people around the world work. Instead of going into an office, attending a meeting, or shaking hands with a colleague, employees are online more than ever before. One of the biggest changes we have been witnessing amid all this, is the need of working together, in newer ways. Such a change has triggered the need for many employees to opt for collaboration tools for group governance, enabling them to stay connected, remotely. This will…
The demands of every organization are unique. What’s not unique are the pressures on IT to make sure people have the right access to secure resources and systems. Your unstructured data is a primary target in nearly all worse case scenarios. Protecting such data gets harder if you don’t understand where it exists, who has access…
What is a Enterprise Hybrid Cloud? Enterprise Hybrid Cloud can have everything in cloud among the services, like Okta, Sail Point, ServiceNow, Active Directory & Azure AD taking to each other. For example, a Helpdesk Request can generate from Service Now for a new user onboarding that requires provisioning an account in Okta for Single-Sign…
For most organizations, the evolution of their environment is focused on addition. Such as adding new servers, applications, connections, cloud resources, and directory services. The same scenario applies to your organization. With each part of this growth comes an equally growing number of permission assignments. These permissions make up your current state of security. But we all know, once a permission assignment is made, it is usually never thought of again. But now, among the…
The sudden change in global affairs has likely created new challenges for you and your team, making it hard to keep up with what matters most to your business — your customers and employees. With many people forced into shelter-in-place by the current situation, the question of how to survive this pandemic has suddenly morphed to how to work effectively with a remote…