Getting SharePoint Back Under Control with Active Directory Groups

SharePoint is one of the fastest-growing applications in the enterprise.  It has many uses and some of those uses have given rise to its popularity such as a collaborative tool for small groups of people, being used as a document repository, and a centralized communications portal for an organization. The problem with SharePoint however is…

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Enforcing Active Directory Group Ownership

Ensuring a Group Management Best Practice Building on the blog of “the case for multiple owners“, the concept of multiple owners with Active Directory Groups becomes of lesser value if those who you’ve delegated group creation to do not actually establish an owner or additional ownership as part of the creation process. Now considered a…

HRIS and Exchange Recipient Policies

Getting email addresses from here to there and back again Active Directory is ever increasingly becoming the center-piece technology on which corporate identity strategies depend on. Orbiting Active Directory identities are the needs to provision those identities along with the applications that then consume those same identities to provide access and services. The art of successful provisioning is…

Mergers and Acquisitions

Avoid planetary disasters – Quickly bridge two organizations   What happens when two organizations decide to merge or when a larger enterprise envelopes a smaller organization? Without a plan in place for an effective integration, the two organization are bound for disaster from an IT perspective. Much like two planetary objects colliding in space. It…

Active Directory Tutorial

We Are All Surrounded By Dummies. Be Active Directory Smart. There are many experts in our field. I could not start naming them without leaving someone off what would be a very lengthy list of people I look up to. What I enjoy about knowing a little bit about these intelligent people is that they…

Cloud Security

Securing Active Directory Groups in the Cloud NASA made a revelation recently revealed that their attempts at moving to the cloud introduced security gaps. This came about after an internal review by NASA’s inspector general. Servers, files, and other resources were without the protections that had previously been in place with on-premise based controls. The…

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The Importance of Active Directory Group Ownership

Active Directory groups are used for many different purposes. Whether it be for managing security through membership in security groups or be it at establishing simple group communications through distribution groups (lists), groups provide an excellent method to logically assemble related objects together. The term “orphan” can carry with it a negative connotation. No person,…

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Active Directory Group Name Examples & Best Practices

Imagine being named XYZ in a crowd of other XYZs – a purposeless name that creates confusion and does not communicate a purpose, adding to the cognitive pile of everyone’s day-to-day tasks. Similarly, Active Directory and Azure AD groups created by users need to have naming practices based on logical grounds centered around your organization’s…

Make Active Directory Group Management Easier

Back when your company was smaller, Active Directory group management was easy. You simply put new people into active directory and manually assigned them to groups so they were included in email and had permission to access resources like files and printers. Resetting passwords, responding to the HR emails, and getting everyone quickly online and…

When One Plus One is Greater than Two: Active Directory Automation

Max Wertheimer, the founder of the Gestalt Theory, once stated in a borrowed and commonly referenced Aristotle philosophy that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. This means that when one thing is grouped with multiple properties, it becomes stronger and can provide more value than it could alone. This concept directly…