We recently received a support email about how Password Center handles a 72 character Active Directory password.  I read it in disbelief.  Seventy-two characters?  That’s the alphabet 2, almost 3, times over.  How does anyone remember a 72 character password? Turns out, pretty darned easily.  Because the best Active Directory password isn’t a word at all…it’s a…

As a franchisor, one of the biggest issues is controlling access to systems required by your franchisees.  It’s easy to control using Active Directory but it’s hard to get your franchisee employees into Active Directory. Think about it, you have 300 franchisees, each with 20 employees needing varied levels of access to the milkshake recipe wiki. …

There has been a lot of talk among our customers and prospects about the new world that is cloud computing and how Active Directory fits into it.  When I think about navigating clouds, I can’t help but think about my friends and family (and Imanami’s CEO) who are pilots.  Talk to any pilot about flying…

One of the great features of GroupID 6 is Active Directory history.  It’s not exactly auditing, it’s a bit more useful than that; history allows administrators and users to easily see changes to the AD objects that they care about. For administrators, the use cases are simple.  You come into the office and the help…

Somehow I missed a comment that was posted on a previous blog post titled An alternative to Query Based Distribution Lists (QBDLs).  In that post, I was talking about the advantages of actually creating a group in Active Directory with your queries vs. the QBDL method of executing the query against Active Directory every single time…

We get a lot of people coming to us for our free Active Directory reporting tool.  Whenever I have the chance, I ask them what they are looking to report on. Often, the answer is that they are looking for an easy way to see group membership in Active Directory.  They don’t have a great…