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.
Only Default OU (Organizational Units) when Active Directory is Installed The Default Domain Controllers OU is just one OU present when Active Directory is first installed. This OU is used to organize and administer the domain’s domain controllers. Over time, the domain administrator can create an infinite number of OUs for the domain, but having…
Table Of Contents Roles in Active Directory Purpose of FSMO Roles Types of FSMO Roles Functions of FSMO Roles How Roles in Active Directory Work? Active Directory was officially released in February 2000 with Windows 2000 server edition. It is an identity management service that contains all the information and data about a network and…
Table of Contents Error: Term ‘Get-ADUser’ is not Recognized Pre-Requisites: (Avoiding Error) Installing PowerShell on Windows 10 Installing PowerShell on Windows Server Importing Active Directory PowerShell Module Error: Get-ADUser Not Recognized Before you start to use Get-ADUser for Active Directory User Management, you need to first verify that you have all the pre-requisites installed otherwise…
User Management via Get-ADUser Cmdlet The Get-AdUser command-let in PowerShell provides many parameters to find domain users. You can use the Identity parameters to look up the user name, provided you are already aware of it. Get-ADUser cmdlet is concerned with getting a specified user object or performing a search query to get multiple users.…
Healthcare IT & Cybersecurity Health care organizations continually face evolving cyberthreats that can put patient safety at risk. It’s essential to recognize that health cybersecurity is not just an IT issue – it encompasses every level of healthcare, from the CEO to clinicians. So, it’s not simply information – it’s about patient safety. Instead, it’s…
Active Directory Distribution Group A Distribution Group is a mail-enabled active directory group, that functions to send a message delivered to that group to multiple recipients’ inboxes who are a member of that group. We can manage some of the properties/permissions of distribution groups within Active Directory or using the Exchange Administration Center (Formerly Exchange…
Was 2021 Better than 2020? 2020 was the year that changed us all. 2021 continued that change while people grasped for the beauty of normalcy in the midst of it all. For enterprise IT, one boogeyman persisted (cyber-attacks including ransomware). Another constant, hybrid environments and cloud iterations, is the ongoing struggle with lots of options.…
What is Enterprise Hybrid Cloud? When we talk about enterprise hybrid cloud, we refer to the combination of one or more public and private clouds (such as On-premise Active Directory ) or hybrid cloud to create a single solution for an organization’s computing data. In simpler words, a hybrid cloud infrastructure enables businesses to back-up…
What is Zero Trust Security? Zero Trust is a security model that is built on the hypothesis that threats exist both inside and outside your network, and therefore, aims to eliminate the concept of trust from an organization’s network architecture. Its implementation centers on strict access controls (without trusting anyone by default), which translates into…
Active Directory has become a popular pathway for ransomware attacks. Take a deep dive into the exploitation tactics for proactively implementing preventive measures and disrupting threat activity. Active Directory (AD) is an on-prem identity management product that holds a plethora of identity-related information. About 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies use Active Directory as a…