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…
We Are All Surrounded By Dummies. Be Active Directory Smart. There are many experts in our field. I could not start naming them without leaving someone off what would be a very lengthy list of people I look up to. What I enjoy about knowing a little bit about these intelligent people is that they…
Securing Active Directory Groups in the Cloud NASA made a revelation recently revealed that their attempts at moving to the cloud introduced security gaps. This came about after an internal review by NASA’s inspector general. Servers, files, and other resources were without the protections that had previously been in place with on-premise based controls. The…
Active Directory groups are used for many different purposes. Whether it be for managing security through membership in security groups or be it at establishing simple group communications through distribution groups (lists), groups provide an excellent method to logically assemble related objects together. The term “orphan” can carry with it a negative connotation. No person,…