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Full Spectrum Active Directory Provisioning

The best way to show the power of GroupID’s Active Directory provisioning is to demonstrate it in action.  When at trade shows, we’ve found an interesting way to show the ease and power of Active Directory provisioning to attendees by using their own identity data.  When they swipe their badge, we provision them as Active…

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Managing a Dynamic Active Directory Group with a Spreadsheet

This use case is a bit different…you are an Exchange administrator who wants to manage your Exchange distribution lists by spreadsheets.  You want to have end users give you a spreadsheet of members they want in the Active Directory group and you are going to manage it.  You could use ADUC if you are a…

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Synchronize Active Directory with a Database

The directory and database infrastructure in most organizations is a tangled web of identity information.  According to Microsoft, the average user needs to be provisioned into 16 directories or databases upon hire.  A disturbing side-note is that same user is de-provisioned from only 10 directories or databases upon termination. But what I’m more interested in…

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Doing it the Hard Way: SharePoint and AD Provisioning

I had a friend who didn’t believe that anything was worth owning unless he had fixed it himself or somehow customized it.  He drove an International Harvester Scout (still one of my favorite vehicles) because it could be repaired with duct tape, a screw driver, a crescent wrench and whatever liquid happened to be in our…

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How to Expire and Renew Active Directory Groups

An Active Directory group should only live as long as it is useful to your business.  But without any native tools to expire and renew Active Directory groups, administrators turn to the time-honored, “delete it and see who complains” technique.  The problem is, then you have to re-create that group, its members and permissions if…

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Limiting Message Size Within AD Self Service Portal

In our LinkedIn User Group, we had a customer ask if GroupID could set the Max Send Size on messages to a group.  What they are doing is delegating control of groups to their users but want to maintain control.  So they have implemented the appropriate amount of workflow (on group creation, on join requests, etc). …

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Dangers of Orphaned Active Directory Groups

An orphaned Active Directory group is a group with no owner.  On the surface, that doesn’t seem that bad, email is still delivered, permissions are still applied.  But there are some real dangers to the business if you allow Active Directory groups to go ownerless and the membership becomes static. Common Danger for Orphan AD…