with Active Directory Groups – Part 3 When Users need to control their own SharePoint portals, delegate Active Directory  group membership management One of the best practices as it relates to group management is to delegate what you cannot automate. This concept is true especially when you’re an organization that uses SharePoint and want to move…

Groups are your cornerstone You cannot build your identity house without a solid identity foundation. Have you ever found yourself with an idea that grows in scope until the original idea has morphed into one that does not accomplish the original intention of the idea? This type of scope bloat is typical for many IT…

The Case for Linked Identities I am but one person and my computer does not recognize me. That is the feeling many get while attempting to attest to some application or service. Keeping your identity protected is necessary and we do this typically behind a password firewall that verifies we are who we say we are.…

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…