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.
I know that the premise that accurate Active Directory groups keep kids out of jail is so obvious that it might not need to be said. But we wanted to explore the concept of what accurate Active Directory groups do for your organization more fully. More scientifically. Ruminating in a think-tank fashion, we came up…
When we developed our Active Directory history feature for GroupID we had a lot of uses in mind. The ability for administrators to get an easy view into Active Directory changes, a simple way for end users to see what they had done to their own groups and attributes, as well as a business friendly tool…
Most organizations manage their users’ access with Active Directory. Many organizations are moving business applications to the cloud. The most cloudy application so far seems to be email, dominated by Google and Microsoft. We have covered BPOS & Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) at length but have only cursorily touched on how Active Directory can…
Enterprise software needs to do one of two things: increase productivity or reduce costs. If it isn’t helping your business make money it is rather pointless. Even software that helps to comply with regulations is doing this, assuming the software cost is less than the fine for not doing it. I picture IT departments huddling…
We’re looking for some votes. A few good votes. We know that GroupID is an incredible product that helps Active Directory live up to its potential, creating productivity and security gains for your company. Windows IT Pro knows it too: they wrote a great review of GroupID, awarded us an Editor’s Choice award, and nominated…
I am constantly reminded how ubiquitous Active Directory groups are in our everyday corporate lives. They are seemingly used for everything (they’re not just for email any more). To illustrate, let me tell a quick story. One of my colleagues wasn’t able to finish a project as he was working from home. He told me…
One of the most common complaints about Active Directory self service password reset is how hard it is to get users to enroll. They just don’t want to be bothered. Why would you when it’s so easy to call the helpdesk? In fact, when we first released Password Center, we soon found that most of…
Sorry to end a thread title with a preposition but I added a few periods to hopefully make it better. I was talking with one of our developers today about common synchronization jobs and he was curious about what are our most commonly used destinations and sources. Of course the answer is SQL, Oracle and…
No. And yes. Of course, those are both lame answers but there is no good answer to the broad question of having an Active Directory web interface. Because you very rarely want to have full admin rights to Active Directory available to anyone other than, say, full admins. And they are probably happy with ADUC.…
When we talk about Active Directory groups, we are usually talking about two kinds of groups: Distribution Groups and Security Groups. Managing distribution lists and security groups is a mission-critical task for just about any IT organization. Active Directory distribution groups work with your email client to define who is included on group messages, while…