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.
While reading Gartner’s research paper titled, “Identity in SharePoint 2010” by Kevin Kampman, I was struck by one particular phrase that is at the heart of the Active Directory or SharePoint group debate: “visibility is not provided into domain group memberships; SharePoint administrators cannot directly examine the members of an Active Directory group, although it…
I recently watched a great video on cloud federation by Coreblox and Ping Identity. You know the problem they’re trying to solve, your users are using applications in the cloud and your access and authorization solutions are stuck on premise. Ping Identity solves that beautifully. Here’s the gist: an Active Directory user is added to…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So behold this novella: Imanami’s GroupID won the Best Windows Product award at the recent Windows Connections conference in Las Vegas. Our HQ lobby is filled with awards and plaques and other achievements but I find this one a little more satisfying than most. Why? Because…
In the world of Active Directory, groups are binary: they exist or they don’t. Other Active Directory objects can be tombstoned, but with groups, they become useless once tombstoned since all of the ACLs and memberships are lost. And Active Directory doesn’t give you the ability to expire and renew them while keeping all of…
The average organization has just under 20% annual internal turnover. This means that 1 in 5 employees will change jobs per year. At the same time, external turnover is approximately 5%, meaning 1 in 20 employees will leave the organization. That, my friend, is a lot of change. But it is nothing compared to the…
Imanami has been chosen as a SINET 16 Innovator and asked to present at the annual SINET Showcase. Each year, a select group of technology companies that can improve efficiency and security at government agencies are asked to present and demonstrate their solutions. Imanami’s GroupID will help solve identity management security problems from group-based access control…
I was recently talking to a customer about the best practice for deprovisioning a terminated employee in Active Directory. Delete or disable? Microsoft doesn’t give the clearest direction on this but common sense does. The case for deleting an account is that, BOOM, no more access. No ifs ands or buts, if there is no…
I see the term Active Directory management tools used everywhere from provisioning to SSO to reporting to auditing. I see it used for managing users, groups, GPOs, and everything in between. It seems to be a broad term meaning software that fills in the holes that Microsoft left in Active Directory. It also seems that “tools”…
In any organization, there are numerous users’ objects including employees, managers, and clients, in active directory and azure active directory, with certain attributes assigned to them within HR database. All these users need to have appropriate active directory permissions within organization’s identity and access management framework, to allowing employees access resources on the network, so they can do their jobs effectively. They cannot be held back by needing to request access each time…
I don’t mean to imply that a lot of SharePoint deployments become shelfware. Nor do I intend that this post will be an exhaustive list of the reasons SharePoint is or isn’t used. But, based on my experience, I know why a lot of SharePoint deployments go stale. Groups. Groups are a good and bad thing. …