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.
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…
Groups manage user accounts, computer accounts, and other groups to simplify network administrations. Working with groups makes maintenance easier and less complex as compared to working with users. In Active Directory, you can create both security groups and distribution lists as static groups. Static groups are best suited when group memberships change occasionally. However, creating…
Defining identity management exactly is an interesting question. In many ways the definition is completely different from organization to organization and vendor to vendor. Wikipedia (the authoritative source of collective watered down wisdom) says: Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources…
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 am a huge college football fan. It’s the NFL playoffs, and now, because the BCS National Championship game is taking forever all I can think about is football. It’s so bad that I have cobbled together ten ways that IT is like football… 10. Without proper attention agile and nimble can easily become slow…