Active Directory groups get a single owner in Active Directory & Exchange which is set in the ManagedBy attribute.  But businesses don’t tend to work that way, Active Directory groups are often “matrix managed”, they have more than one user that should be responsible for the upkeep of that group. Exchange 2010 is bridging that…

I recently had a conversation with a customer who said that he doesn’t allow mail enabled Active Directory security groups.  Another customer was in the same meeting who said that he wished he could disable that ability.  Two proofpoints that Active Directory administrators do not want to mail enable security groups.  Unfortunately, we were discussing…

Maintaining the accuracy of all Active Directory groups is important but as George Orwell may have said (and I’m paraphrasing here), “All Active Directory groups are equal, but some Active Directory groups are more equal than others.”  I say this because some Active Directory groups have to be accurate.  And because some are easier to keep…

Imanami was recently quoted in Windows IT Pro on Active Directory’s 10th anniversary.  Part of that discussion was whether Active Directory could be put in the cloud. “That’s tough,” Haaverson says. “AD is protected with a vengeance. Why would you want to push it to the cloud? What do you do if the Internet goes…

In today’s M&A-heavy environment, GAL synchronization between two or more forests is becoming more and more important.  IT departments are regularly called upon to integrate two organizations’ global address lists on the first day that the merger is complete, expecting employees to be able to see the new organizations as one even if the backend…

One of the beautiful things about our modern world is the availability of information.  If you ask, you are bound to find it.  One of my responsibilities is finding out what people are asking about Active Directory & Exchange.  You would think it would be big picture items: “Can Active Directory be put in the…