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…
You think you have it bad with your internal users forgetting their Active Directory passwords? Harumph. That’s nothing compared to your legions of external users who only log in occasionally. You are going to get a ton of calls if you don’t have a selfservice password reset solution for them. The issue? We are seeing…
As usual at TechEd, we got a great reaction to our shirt. That is kind of a given, we spend a lot of time designing a wearable t-shirt, something that has our message but also doesn’t scream “I am wearing a free t-shirt from a tech conference.” You know, because those are the shirts that…
While deleting the hundreds of photos my 5 year old takes on my phone every week, I came across this photo of his Angry Bird stuffed animal. And it occurred to me that Angry Birds is what made my phone useful for him. Not the stuffed animal, but the game. Since I was sitting at…