You still need Active Directory even though you have outsourced Exchange to Microsoft BPOS.  So, how do you manage it?  You want your user attributes to be accurate, group memberships up to date, unused groups expired, and security groups to be, well, secure.  Oh, and you really don’t want to have your IT department to…

Am I the only one who has been seeing a lot in the press recently about privileged users and the tools and solutions focused on them? When I read this article on insider threats in Network World, I realized that dynamic user provisioning, which Imanami has been offering our clients for years, is a fundamental…

There is a lot of excitement surrounding the release of SharePoint 2010, and justifiably so. Many of our clients are using it and achieving some great things. That is part of the reason we have made it so easy for GroupID Self Service to be implemented as a WebPart. One of the new things that…

Active Directory comes with an interface: ADUC.  It is very useful for admins and only admins.  We have had customers admit to us in the past that they have allowed ordinary end users access to ADUC; this changed quickly once they got a good web based Active Directory self service solution like GroupID Self Service.…

I kid.  All your group do not belong to us.  We just have the best way to help you manage your Active Directory groups with Imanami’s GroupID. We are currently in the midst of our best quarter ever and I have photoshop and I’ve always wanted to make that image.  I’ll probably print up some…

Many of our customers use Role-based Access Control (RBAC). At least that’s what they are telling us. But our products don’t actually support the traditional concept of roles, where you create the perfect role of a salesperson and assign permissions and access to that role. Our customers are getting more granular than that. It’s almost…