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…

Imanami works with a number of large healthcare organizations, and so I try to stay fairly current on the technologies that are being most talked about. Right now Single Sign On (SSO) is a huge topic of discussion.  So much so that I asked one of my friends who is an ER physician at a…

When we designed GroupID to work with Exchange 2010, we didn’t want to simply “support” Exchange 2010, we wanted to be sure that we worked with it.  The reason is that Exchange 2010 has introduced a small subset of GroupID’s Active Directory group management features into OWA and we were determined to complement these features…

Imanami’s GroupID has a simple yet effective method for Active Directory group self service.  We allow the group owner or Admin four choices for group security: Private: closed membership Semi-private: owner must approve membership request Semi-public: notify owner of new membership Public: open membership When you open group membership for self service, the owner(s) assign…