I was recently perusing Technet’s script repository which details all of the scripts related to Active Directory groups. It was fascinating in that these scripts did a lot of great things but required quite a lot of work if you wanted them for anything other than one-off requests. And that’s not even getting into the…
I have had the opportunity to speak with Sean Deuby and really appreciate his insights into Active Directory and understanding of the challenges that face most IT Pros. So, I watched this interview, titled Active Directory in the Enterprise, with him by Paul Thurrott with great interest. At about 2:20 into the interview, he states a…
Active Directory is not a four letter word but when opening AD up to end user self service, there is a potential to get bad words into it. I had a colleague years ago that as his last act at the company changed his voicemail to a lengthy profanity filled diatribe against the company. It…
I was recently searching on Google about Active Directory security group expiration (because GroupID does that and I wanted to make sure Google knows that we do it) and came across an interesting post on the petri.il forums. This post details a script that will give a list of user accounts that have a password set to…
Imanami works with a number of large healthcare organizations, and so I try to stay fairly current on the technologies that are being most talked about. Right now Single Sign On (SSO) is a huge topic of discussion. So much so that I asked one of my friends who is an ER physician at a…
When we designed GroupID to work with Exchange 2010, we didn’t want to simply “support” Exchange 2010, we wanted to be sure that we worked with it. The reason is that Exchange 2010 has introduced a small subset of GroupID’s Active Directory group management features into OWA and we were determined to complement these features…
Imanami’s GroupID has a simple yet effective method for Active Directory group self service. We allow the group owner or Admin four choices for group security: Private: closed membership Semi-private: owner must approve membership request Semi-public: notify owner of new membership Public: open membership When you open group membership for self service, the owner(s) assign…
One of the things that jumped out at me in our recent survey seemed to be confirmed by visiting with a number of folks who stopped by our booth at TechEd. People are using Active Directory to secure SharePoint groups! Our survey showed that nearly 50% of organizations are, and based on the conversations we…
I attended a great webinar by Logic Trends today. In it they discussed their methodology to cleaning up and ensuring the long term health of Active Directory. The first step, as always, is to identify the problem. They have a methodology that begins with AD reporting, in fact, their own AD reporting tool covers some…
There are two common use cases for kiosk access to Active Directory self service. The first one is very straight forward, allow end users the ability to log in and update their Active Directory profile or search a corporate phone book. We have had the second one less often but often enough that we have…