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.
When you think of Active Directory health, the first thing that comes to mind is that the directory should be organized and running smoothly. Stable directory health revolves around certain indicators, such as: The groups are up to date Only the users currently engaged with the company exist as active users No unwanted objects exist…
Get-ADGroup Cmdlet – Definition Get-ADGroup primarily enables IT admins to retrieve information pertaining to Active Directory groups as follows: You can identify a group in many ways like its Distinguished Name, GUID, SID or SAM Account Name. You can use Filter and LDAP Filter to fetch information about multiple groups from Active Directory. Use PowerShell…
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a critical part of IT security as it manages user identities, access to data, and permissions to handle resources within an organization. Despite sophisticated cybersecurity programs, threats and data breaches are increasing at an alarming rate, which is why enterprises must deploy an effective IAM solution to safeguard their…
The Get-ADComputer cmdlet retrieves a single computer or several computers using a search. The Identity parameter is used to specify the Active Directory computers to retrieve. A computer’s distinguished name, GUID, security identifier (SID), or Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account name can all be used as value for the Identity parameter to locate the computer…
Almost all Active Directory actions that you typically carry out using tools like Active Directory Users and Computers and Active Directory Sites and Services can be carried out utilizing PowerShell. For example, you can use Active Directory PowerShell cmdlets that support specified parameters to query Active Directory data. In order to retrieve user information from…
Technically, Active Directory and LDAP are two different things. Active Directory is a database and set of services that runs on Microsoft Windows server. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a software protocol that allows users to locate an organization’s data. However, you might consider them very similar to each other because Active Directory is…
Group nesting in Active Directory simplifies network management for administrators. It enables them to assign access rights and permissions to resources within the domain and across domains with ease. However, due to the various types of groups and their scope in Active Directory, group nesting can get confusing at times. Therefore, it is important to…
Managing any Active Directory (AD) component using Windows PowerShell is simple. In addition to managing AD objects like users, computers, and groups, we can handle any AD functionality via PowerShell. This blog will concentrate on users and groups while explaining how you can use Windows PowerShell and the Active Directory module to obtain a user’s…
Hybrid environments are a fundamental reality for businesses of every size. What that environment looks like for any given company is unique to that company. One size does not fit all, and it shouldn’t – that’s the nature of hybrid. One challenge that is not unique, however, is the need for security. Data security in…
Get-ChildItem Powershell Cmdlet Get-ChildItem obtains objects from one or more locations specified. If the item is a container, it receives the child items contained within the container. The Recurse parameter can be used to get items from all child containers, while the Depth parameter can be used to limit how many levels to recurse to.…