We are turning in our TechEd t-shirt design to the printer today; this always makes me nostalgic so I pulled out my favorite t-shirt. The Active Directory movie thriller, Control your Groups! This epic (not yet made) film is about the virtuous Active Directory Admin being led astray by the femme fatale, Ann Duser. She…
We get role attestation as a customer requirement in Active Directory group management constantly. The problem is that it seems to mean something different to everyone. Bob Bobel describes attestation very well: “Attestation describes any certification review process where an individual swears to or witness/confirm something important. This term is almost universally used to describe…
Users forgetting their passwords is a time honored tradition dating back to the simultaneous invention of the user and the password. Just as Alexander Graham Bell’s first words were “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you”, the first user’s first words were “what is my password again?” So we give them…
Most of our clients are either using SharePoint or are considering it. Naturally, we are hearing questions about how our products work with SharePoint, but we are also learning some cool ideas about how GroupID can be used to easily solve some common SharePoint problems. I thought that I might share some of those here.…
Recently, while discussing what makes a healthy Active Directory, the idea of users who have never logged on came up. They have an Active Directory user account but for some reason have never logged on to the network. None of us in the discussion could come up with a single valid reason to keep that…
This is a bit of a loaded question because it is usually the readers of this blog, Active Directory administrators and help desk. In most organizations (85%), Active Directory group creation is done manually, usually in ADUC. When done manually, it takes a long time to get a group created and once created it is…