If you were to ask what’s the most difficult part of managing Active Directory groups, we’d probably get a few different answers. Probably very few of you (if any at all) would focus on the actual creation and maintenance of the groups, while most (again, if not all) would focus on the issue of where…
Active Directory Management Wasting Your Time? If you are like millions of other people in this world, when you look at yourself and how you manage time you may come to the conclusion that you are a procrastinator, a day-dreamer, or just someone who wastes their daylight hours on tasks that are not well prioritized.…
Appreciation of admins through delegation of control An anecdotal story of how one company showed appreciation for secretaries and admins In honor of Administrative Professional’s Day (Secretaries Day or Admin Day), I wanted to share an experience I had while talking to one of our customer’s recently. It is after all, these very important people…
Maintaining a Healthy Active Directory I love pizza. Pizza is often cited as the most popular food in the world. Who can blame the world for loving pizza? It has the perfect blend of things that appeal to most people. Zesty tomato based sauce, hot melted cheese, a crust that could melt in your mouth if…
Ensuring that the Right People have the Right Access to the Right Information at the Right Time Defining system access for employees can be a challenging task for organizations of all sizes. But unless intimate knowledge of each employee’s role is known, granting access is often cumbersome and demands manual input from the IT department.…
Projecting your on-premise Active Directory groups into your M365 hosted Exchange You still need Active Directory even though you have outsourced Exchange to Microsoft via M365. 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. …