As usual at TechEd, we got a great reaction to our shirt. That is kind of a given, we spend a lot of time designing a wearable t-shirt, something that has our message but also doesn’t scream “I am wearing a free t-shirt from a tech conference.” You know, because those are the shirts that…
While deleting the hundreds of photos my 5 year old takes on my phone every week, I came across this photo of his Angry Bird stuffed animal. And it occurred to me that Angry Birds is what made my phone useful for him. Not the stuffed animal, but the game. Since I was sitting at…
So, you’re moving to Google Apps and all the goodness that it offers. You’ve seen the light (through the cloud) and are ready to embrace it. Up until this day, you have been a loyal Microsoft shop and have most of your infrastructure tied up in it. Most notably, Active Directory. You use Active Directory…
It’s always a pain; you’ve been away on vacation and vaguely remember your Active Directory password. You try $p!d3rm@N, then $pId3rM@n, then $P1derMAN, and then you remember, of course, it’s $0oP3rmAn. But by then it’s too late. Your Active Directory account is locked (l0ck3d). In the old days, you would grab the sports section and…
We get a lot of searches for “recover Active Directory group membership”, mainly for this post on restoring group membership with dynamic groups. Imanami’s products don’t actually recover Active Directory group membership once they’ve been deleted but we do something that I find slightly more interesting in that context. If you think about one reason…
We can all agree that a self service password reset solution saves the company money: fewer help desk calls, less productivity lost and most importantly fewer help desk calls. That’s the holy grail of IT: help your users without them picking up the phone. But how do you get users to actually enroll and use…