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.
A Virtual Private Network or VPN, is a technology that helps you establish an encrypted environment on your network so that when you access the World Wide Web, your system is safe and secure from prying eyes. In addition to this, VPN also facilitates in hiding your IP address so that you can visit websites…
So you have decided to delegate Active Directory management to your end users, resolving that they know who should be in their AD groups better than the help desk ever will. The thing is, users keep lists: department lists, lists of people who help plan office parties, lists of department assistants, et cetera. When giving the…
OK, I admit it. I am a big Clint Eastwood fan. And it helps me as I talk to clients! The IT landscape is full of dangers and people with black hats. It’s a complex world where resources can be scarce. It pays to keep your head down, your words to a minimum, and to…
We had our customer advisory committee meeting today where we discuss product priorities with a select group of customers. This is part of the Agile Methodology where a group of stakeholders help set priorities and define what features should look like. As always, Active Directory group lifecycle was discussed; we are looking at new and…
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…