I see the term Active Directory management tools used everywhere from provisioning to SSO to reporting to auditing. I see it used for managing users, groups, GPOs, and everything in between. It seems to be a broad term meaning software that fills in the holes that Microsoft left in Active Directory. It also seems that “tools”…
In any organization, there are numerous users’ objects including employees, managers, and clients, in active directory and azure active directory, with certain attributes assigned to them within HR database. All these users need to have appropriate active directory permissions within organization’s identity and access management framework, to allowing employees access resources on the network, so they can do their jobs effectively. They cannot be held back by needing to request access each time…
I don’t mean to imply that a lot of SharePoint deployments become shelfware. Nor do I intend that this post will be an exhaustive list of the reasons SharePoint is or isn’t used. But, based on my experience, I know why a lot of SharePoint deployments go stale. Groups. Groups are a good and bad thing. …
I know that the premise that accurate Active Directory groups keep kids out of jail is so obvious that it might not need to be said. But we wanted to explore the concept of what accurate Active Directory groups do for your organization more fully. More scientifically. Ruminating in a think-tank fashion, we came up…
When we developed our Active Directory history feature for GroupID we had a lot of uses in mind. The ability for administrators to get an easy view into Active Directory changes, a simple way for end users to see what they had done to their own groups and attributes, as well as a business friendly tool…
Most organizations manage their users’ access with Active Directory. Many organizations are moving business applications to the cloud. The most cloudy application so far seems to be email, dominated by Google and Microsoft. We have covered BPOS & Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) at length but have only cursorily touched on how Active Directory can…