In our LinkedIn User Group, we had a customer ask if GroupID could set the Max Send Size on messages to a group.  What they are doing is delegating control of groups to their users but want to maintain control.  So they have implemented the appropriate amount of workflow (on group creation, on join requests, etc). …

I worked in the HR world for quite some time.  As I made the transition to a more IT focused role I was surprised at how similar some of the conversations are.  Both HR and IT are striving to deliver new services and more value to the business lines they serve faster and at lower…

An orphaned Active Directory group is a group with no owner.  On the surface, that doesn’t seem that bad, email is still delivered, permissions are still applied.  But there are some real dangers to the business if you allow Active Directory groups to go ownerless and the membership becomes static. You can almost guarantee inaccuracy…

Active Directory and Exchange offer a great tool for managing communication to distribution lists: message delivery restrictions.  This concept is pretty easy to understand, if you have an Exchange distribution list that you want only certain people to be able to email, you include them in the message delivery restriction.  Conversely, if you want certain…

Creating dynamic nested Active Directory groups, what we call dynasties, is an incredibly easy way to ensure your most used and most important Active Directory groups are accurate.  The premise is simple: every organization needs AD groups for each location, department, and manager; all the information is in Active Directory so make them dynamic.  A…

After 200 entries and a lot of work to make the bingo hopper actually hold all of the paper entry slips that we created, we have a winner for the free full conference pass for TechEd 2010 in New Orleans! We will contact the winner via phone and email today but in case the winner cannot…