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.
Most large corporations use Microsoft Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to force a signature onto employees’ email. Usually it is a bit of legal mumbo-jumbo (that is the technical term, laymen may use something more descriptive) that states that you had better be the correct person that this email was sent to and it’s not our…
I just read a fascinating Q&A over at Information Week. The topic was why CIO’s should pay more attention to their helpdesk functions. Probably the most compelling reason is that something like 84% of users formulate their impressions of how well IT is doing its job from their interactions with the service desk! The question…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so a youtube video of GroupID in action should be worth a thousand dynamic Active Directory security groups. As part of Imanami’s never-ending quest to bring AD group management to light for the marketplace, we recorded a short video how-to for automating AD security group membership…
Active Directory and Exchange services enable security groups to manage distribution lists. However, the capabilities around groups owning other groups are limited. Table Of Contents Why Distribution Lists are Managed by Security Groups? How Distribution Lists are Managed by Security Groups Use Cases for Distribution List Management via Security Groups List of Common Group Attributes…
The example we gave when designing the group hijacking feature for GroupID was absurd. Say you owned an Exchange distribution list designed to discuss cookbooks and somebody else owned a distribution group designed to discuss the Anarchist Cookbook…very different sets of users with most likely a very different set of discussions. If the owner of the…
Active Directory is central to most IT infrastructures. You manage users, computers, groups, contacts, access, authentication, and lunch orders with it. Well, maybe not lunch orders but it wouldn’t be too hard with a good web-based self-service tool, some AD synchronization, and a fax gateway. The problem would eventually be: how do you report on…
Right after Exchange 2010 was released, I was quoted in Network World stating that none of our GroupID customers planned to move to it immediately. I immediately received two responses, one customer contacted me on Twitter and said he was very soon. And one guy stated in the comments that the obvious reason I said…
In the last few years many organizations have been through at least one round of layoffs, reduction in force or organizational restructuring. Going through that process is painful and challenging in a host of ways, including the effects on the morale of the remaining employees. Organizations are running increasingly lean and in most cases the…
I hesitate to call a QBDL by its other name, QBDG, because it isn’t a group. In fact of all of the letters in the acronym “Q” is really the pertinent one. The reason is that a Query Based Distribution List isn’t a list or a group, it is a query and only a query. …
One of the primary responsibilities for IT is to actively help their organization’s users stay productive. If the overall workload required to do that is 100 units of help, you can bet that your organization’s current capacity is somewhat south of that number, most likely less than half. If your organization is like most, you…