I presented a webinar today on the common pitfalls in Active Directory self service.  I would link to a recording but as usual I forgot to hit that red record button at the beginning.  Luckily, Imanami has a blog so that we can save the ideas for posterity. First off, why do you want to offer…

For most of us, the decision to buy software comes down to saving time and saving money. If we don’t save one or the other, then what is the point? We know in the business of IT that time is money. But how do you show that to your CFO, or to the business unit…

To manage Active Directory user accounts; that’s quite a statement.  It evokes an image of constantly working on a user account, ensuring its accuracy, checking on its well being, and probably calling the user herself every once in a while to see how life is going.  It is also one of the phrases that brings…

In Active Directory, a computer object is a security principal. This means that just as with a user, you can give permissions for resources and assign security group memberships to the computer.  Applying permissions to security groups instead of OUs is a generally accepted best practice.  For user objects, you can delegate part of this…

A computer object is a security principal. This means that just as with a user, you can give permissions for resources and assign security group memberships to the computer.  Applying permissions to security groups instead of OUs is a generally accepted best practice.  For user objects, you can delegate part of this and automate most…

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…