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.
I was reading a great article over at Dave Coleman’s SharePoint and Technology Blog, SharePointEduTech. He proposed a simple question, SharePoint or AD groups to permission your SharePoint deployment. As a vendor in the discussion, I feel uncomfortable commenting in his article but was very relieved to see that 56% of respondents use AD groups…
Do you ever feel like you are answering the same questions over and over again? I have yet to come across a customer or prospect who would not like to reduce the number of calls that come into their help desk or service center. Those calls always have a cost and it seems that many…
Most people know that when you construct a SharePoint site you can grant permissions a couple of ways. You can assign it user by user (time consuming and tiresome) or you can use groups. But what type of group to use? You can either use a group created in SharePoint (a SharePoint group), or you…
As the old saying goes, denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. It is also a useful tool to deny access and rights for employees on probation. Think about the first thing an employee who is put on steps of discipline will want to do. Steal data. Download all of their files and contact information. …
There was a question over on Mark Minasi’s Active Directory forum on how to find unused Active Directory security groups. The answer quickly came that it is “a pretty hard problem to solve for real.” There are a few vendors that can offer reports/tools that show what file system permissions are associated with each group. But…
You still need Active Directory even though you have outsourced Exchange to Microsoft BPOS. So, how do you manage it? You want your user attributes to be accurate, group memberships up to date, unused groups expired, and security groups to be, well, secure. Oh, and you really don’t want to have your IT department to…
Am I the only one who has been seeing a lot in the press recently about privileged users and the tools and solutions focused on them? When I read this article on insider threats in Network World, I realized that dynamic user provisioning, which Imanami has been offering our clients for years, is a fundamental…
There is a lot of excitement surrounding the release of SharePoint 2010, and justifiably so. Many of our clients are using it and achieving some great things. That is part of the reason we have made it so easy for GroupID Self Service to be implemented as a WebPart. One of the new things that…
Active Directory comes with an interface: ADUC. It is very useful for admins and only admins. We have had customers admit to us in the past that they have allowed ordinary end users access to ADUC; this changed quickly once they got a good web based Active Directory self service solution like GroupID Self Service.…
I kid. All your group do not belong to us. We just have the best way to help you manage your Active Directory groups with Imanami’s GroupID. We are currently in the midst of our best quarter ever and I have photoshop and I’ve always wanted to make that image. I’ll probably print up some…