The case for temporary membership You are sitting around a table to discuss the current status of a critical project. Things are not looking real good and it seems that there is no way to reach the end of the project by the necessary deadline with the staff currently tasked with the work. There is…

with Active Directory Groups – Part 2 Use GroupID to leverage ABAC concepts for intelligent SharePoint memberships. What you know about your staff is usually what drives identifying what resources they need in order to be productive. For example, you may know that a person who works in your Chicago office and is responsible for…

with Active Directory Groups – Part 1 SharePoint is one of the fastest growing applications in the enterprise.  It has many uses and some of those uses have given rise to its popularity such as a collaborative tool for small groups of people, being used as a document repository, and a centralized communications portal for…

Ensuring a Group Management Best Practice Building on the blog of “the case for multiple owners“, the concept of multiple owners with Active Directory Groups becomes of lesser value if those who you’ve delegated group creation to do not actually establish an owner or additional ownership as part of the creation process. Now considered a…

Getting email addresses from here to there and back again Active Directory is ever increasingly becoming the center-piece technology on which corporate identity strategies depend on. Orbiting Active Directory identities are the needs to provision those identities along with the applications that then consume those same identities to provide access and services. The art of successful provisioning is…

Avoid planetary disasters – Quickly bridge two organizations What happens when two organizations decide to merge or when a larger enterprise envelopes a smaller organization? Without a plan in place for an effective integration, the two organization are bound for disaster from an IT perspective. Much like two planetary objects colliding in space. It can…