Do you ever wonder what your Imanami sales team does when not helping our customers with the world’s greatest Active Directory group management solutions? Answer: snowball fights. What is real is our wishes for a happy Holiday season for everyone and an accurate Active Directory!
I follow Twitter to see what people are saying and tweeting about Active Directory. Sometimes it’s educational, sometimes it’s hysterical and sometimes it’s both. Ron Fischer (@ronzobot) recently had one of my favorite Active Directory tweets to date. He keenly observed, “You’re not really an employee until Active Directory says so…” Like all great tweets,…
There is a long continuing debate on using SharePoint groups or Active Directory groups for SharePoint site access. Based on our own poll (in the nav bar to the right) and the one on SharePointEdu Tech, approximately 85-90% of admins use either Active Directory groups exclusively or partially for granting access. My guess as to…
While our GroupID Synchronize product is widely known for its provisioning and directory synchronization capabilities, we also have quite a customer base using it exclusively for GAL synchronization. I wrote about how to do it in GAL Synchronization between Forests but want to comment a bit more on how simple it is to do. Many…
To compare Imanami’s GroupID with Microsoft’s Forefront Identity Manager (FIM), it is essential to understand what each is and isn’t. FIM is an Identity and Access Management suite. It provides policy management, credential management, user management and group management. What it is not is simple or cost effective. GroupID is purpose-built software to manage Active…
I was reading a great article over at Dave Coleman’s SharePoint and Technology Blog, SharePointEduTech. He proposed a simple question, SharePoint or AD groups to permission your SharePoint deployment. As a vendor in the discussion, I feel uncomfortable commenting in his article but was very relieved to see that 56% of respondents use AD groups…