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.
In a recent conversation with a GroupID customer, we were made aware that they don’t allow mail-enabled Active Directory security groups. Another customer in the same meeting wished to disable the ability of mail-enabling security groups altogether. So, it left us wondering why IT Administrators are hesitant to mail enabling security groups? Before digging down…
Maintaining the accuracy of all Active Directory groups is important but as George Orwell may have said (and I’m paraphrasing here), “All Active Directory groups are equal, but some Active Directory groups are more equal than others.” I say this because some Active Directory groups have to be accurate. And because some are easier to keep…
Imanami was recently quoted in Windows IT Pro on Active Directory’s 10th anniversary. Part of that discussion was whether Active Directory could be put in the cloud. “That’s tough,” Haaverson says. “AD is protected with a vengeance. Why would you want to push it to the cloud? What do you do if the Internet goes…
In today’s M&A-heavy environment, GAL synchronization between two or more forests is becoming more and more important. IT departments are regularly called upon to integrate two organizations’ global address lists on the first day that the merger is complete, expecting employees to be able to see the new organizations as one even if the backend…
One of the beautiful things about our modern world is the availability of information. If you ask, you are bound to find it. One of my responsibilities is finding out what people are asking about Active Directory & Exchange. You would think it would be big picture items: “Can Active Directory be put in the…
In each of my YouTube chalk-talks where I have created dynamic Active Directory groups, I paused to admire the section where GroupID provides the specific PowerShell command that would create that group in Active Directory. It is an excellent feature that allows our customers to script some of these commands into existing processes. The word…
Think about all of the data that you have in your infrastructure. I’d bet that most of it isn’t in Active Directory. And yet, you would still like to use it for our favorite activity: creating dynamic active directory groups. Here’s an example: HR keeps employees with union membership in a database, safe from prying…
We just picked our booth for TechEd 2010 in New Orleans. I get up early on booth-picking day, pour some ground glass into my coffee to get in the mood, and prepare for battle. This is because we are placing ourselves in harm’s way. And as the great John Paul Jones said, “I wish to…
When I first heard this use case I thought the customer was crazy. They were using an Exchange dynamic distribution list to troubleshoot Active Directory. Sort of an early warning that their data in Active Directory was going awry. It seemed to me that these groups were for email and that there were tools out there…
Having a web based Active Directory update tool allows IT to delegate Active Directory updates to the end user. But you can do more than just put it out there and hope that end users decide to give you their cell phone number or emergency contact. You can annoy them until they give you the…