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.
Everybody knows you have to get users in Active Directory. With the incredible market share that Active Directory has, it’s just the first step to doing anything for the vast majority of organizations. When an employee starts, you want that employee as a user in Active Directory immediately so they can start working. Incredibly, this…
A quick story. Two blogs run the same poll about securing SharePoint using groups. One blog is SharePoint-centric. The other blog is Active Directory-centric. The question that has been on everybody’s mind is, how will the results differ? The question was simple: do you use Active Directory groups, SharePoint groups or both to secure site…
When was the last time you checked to see if your Active Directory user accounts matched your HRIS? What about a quick check to see if everyone had the correct department, phone number, or if they even had a mobile phone listed? There are obvious security advantages to having the correct accounts have access to…
I am a huge college football fan. It’s the NFL playoffs, and now, because the BCS National Championship game is taking forever all I can think about is football. It’s so bad that I have cobbled together ten ways that IT is like football… 10. Without proper attention agile and nimble can easily become slow…
‘Tis the season of holiday cheer and peace on Earth, so it seems the right time to ask why can’t Active Directory and SharePoint administrators be friends? They seem to play with the same things. Our research shows that more than 85% of companies are using Active Directory security groups to provide permission to SharePoint…
Do you ever wonder what your Imanami sales team does when not helping our customers with the world’s greatest Active Directory group management solutions? Answer: snowball fights. What is real is our wishes for a happy Holiday season for everyone and an accurate Active Directory!
I follow Twitter to see what people are saying and tweeting about Active Directory. Sometimes it’s educational, sometimes it’s hysterical and sometimes it’s both. Ron Fischer (@ronzobot) recently had one of my favorite Active Directory tweets to date. He keenly observed, “You’re not really an employee until Active Directory says so…” Like all great tweets,…
There is a long continuing debate on using SharePoint groups or Active Directory groups for SharePoint site access. Based on our own poll (in the nav bar to the right) and the one on SharePointEdu Tech, approximately 85-90% of admins use either Active Directory groups exclusively or partially for granting access. My guess as to…
While our GroupID Synchronize product is widely known for its provisioning and directory synchronization capabilities, we also have quite a customer base using it exclusively for GAL synchronization. I wrote about how to do it in GAL Synchronization between Forests but want to comment a bit more on how simple it is to do. Many…
To compare Imanami’s GroupID with Microsoft’s Forefront Identity Manager (FIM), it is essential to understand what each is and isn’t. FIM is an Identity and Access Management suite. It provides policy management, credential management, user management and group management. What it is not is simple or cost effective. GroupID is purpose-built software to manage Active…