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 had a friend who didn’t believe that anything was worth owning unless he had fixed it himself or somehow customized it. He drove an International Harvester Scout (still one of my favorite vehicles) because it could be repaired with duct tape, a screw driver, a crescent wrench and whatever liquid happened to be in our…
An Active Directory group should only live as long as it is useful to your business. But without any native tools to expire and renew Active Directory groups, administrators turn to the time-honored, “delete it and see who complains” technique. The problem is, then you have to re-create that group, its members and permissions if…
Group Policy Objects (GPO) are not just for OUs any more. There are not a ton of GPOs that are better off applying exclusively to Active Directory groups but there are a few. The main use of GPOs filtered to Active Directory security groups is to create exceptions to group policy but there are a few…
In our LinkedIn User Group, we had a customer ask if GroupID could set the Max Send Size on messages to a group. What they are doing is delegating control of groups to their users but want to maintain control. So they have implemented the appropriate amount of workflow (on group creation, on join requests, etc). …
I worked in the HR world for quite some time. As I made the transition to a more IT focused role I was surprised at how similar some of the conversations are. Both HR and IT are striving to deliver new services and more value to the business lines they serve faster and at lower…
An orphaned Active Directory group is a group with no owner. On the surface, that doesn’t seem that bad, email is still delivered, permissions are still applied. But there are some real dangers to the business if you allow Active Directory groups to go ownerless and the membership becomes static. Common Danger for Orphan AD…
Active Directory and Exchange offer a great tool for managing communication to distribution lists: message delivery restrictions. This concept is pretty easy to understand, if you have an Exchange distribution list that you want only certain people to be able to email, you include them in the message delivery restriction. Conversely, if you want certain…
What are Active Directory Dynamic Groups? Active Directory Dynamic Groups are the ones that dynamically maintain their memberships based on rules. These rules are applied in the form of a user-defined query, such as an LDAP query. This query is defined once and scheduled for membership update using a Dynamic Group Update job. When the…
After 200 entries and a lot of work to make the bingo hopper actually hold all of the paper entry slips that we created, we have a winner for the free full conference pass for TechEd 2010 in New Orleans! We will contact the winner via phone and email today but in case the winner cannot…
We aren’t big on the pranks at Imanami but we had to do at least one so we stole a page from The Office and be-jello’d our CEO’s stapler. Be-jello’ing is sort of like bedazzling but with Jello instead of rhinestones. I hear it’s all the rage in Paris this season. One very serious prank…