So, you’re moving to Google Apps and all the goodness that it offers. You’ve seen the light (through the cloud) and are ready to embrace it. Up until this day, you have been a loyal Microsoft shop and have most of your infrastructure tied up in it. Most notably, Active Directory. You use Active Directory…
It’s always a pain; you’ve been away on vacation and vaguely remember your Active Directory password. You try $p!d3rm@N, then $pId3rM@n, then $P1derMAN, and then you remember, of course, it’s $0oP3rmAn. But by then it’s too late. Your Active Directory account is locked (l0ck3d). In the old days, you would grab the sports section and…
We get a lot of searches for “recover Active Directory group membership”, mainly for this post on restoring group membership with dynamic groups. Imanami’s products don’t actually recover Active Directory group membership once they’ve been deleted but we do something that I find slightly more interesting in that context. If you think about one reason…
We can all agree that a self service password reset solution saves the company money: fewer help desk calls, less productivity lost and most importantly fewer help desk calls. That’s the holy grail of IT: help your users without them picking up the phone. But how do you get users to actually enroll and use…
For the past 6 weeks I have anxiously awaited Windows IT Pro’s review of the GroupID product suite. After speaking to the reviewer, Russell Smith, and giving him a demo of the product, I knew he understood what we do and the business problems that we solve. But I had no idea how the actual…
In every hobby or activity I pursue there is a forum, a central place online where a bunch of us who cannot get enough of something get together to talk about it. Sailing, swimming, baseball….you name it, a lot of great places to discuss the ins and outs. But what about Active Directory? There just doesn’t…