OK, I admit it.  I am a big Clint Eastwood fan.  And it helps me as I talk to clients! The IT landscape is full of dangers and people with black hats.  It’s a complex world where resources can be scarce.  It pays to keep your head down, your words to a minimum, and to…

We had our customer advisory committee meeting today where we discuss product priorities with a select group of customers.  This is part of the Agile Methodology where a group of stakeholders help set priorities and define what features should look like. As always, Active Directory group lifecycle was discussed; we are looking at new and…

I was recently perusing Technet’s script repository which details all of the scripts related to Active Directory groups.  It was fascinating in that these scripts did a lot of great things but required quite a lot of work if you wanted them for anything other than one-off requests.  And that’s not even getting into the…

I have had the opportunity to speak with Sean Deuby and really appreciate his insights into Active Directory and understanding of the challenges that face most IT Pros.  So, I watched this interview, titled Active Directory in the Enterprise, with him by Paul Thurrott with great interest. At about 2:20 into the interview, he states a…

Active Directory is not a four letter word but when opening AD up to end user self service, there is a potential to get bad words into it.  I had a colleague years ago that as his last act at the company changed his voicemail to a lengthy profanity filled diatribe against the company.  It…

I was recently searching on Google about Active Directory security group expiration (because GroupID does that and I wanted to make sure Google knows that we do it) and came across an interesting post on the petri.il forums.  This post details a script that will give a list of user accounts that have a password set to…