Natively, Exchange and Active Directory allow for a limited set of capabilities around groups owning groups.  If you are running in native AD mode, you can have built-in security groups manage distribution lists.  Not bad, you can have all Exchange Admins manage distribution lists through Outlook or other examples like that.  But it is limiting.…

The example we gave when designing the group hijacking feature for GroupID was absurd.  Say you owned an Exchange distribution list designed to discuss cookbooks and somebody else owned a distribution group designed to discuss the Anarchist Cookbook…very different sets of users with most likely a very different set of discussions. If the owner of the…

Active Directory is central to most IT infrastructures.  You manage users, computers, groups, contacts, access, authentication, and lunch orders with it.  Well, maybe not lunch orders but it wouldn’t be too hard with a good web-based self-service tool, some AD synchronization, and a fax gateway.  The problem would eventually be: how do you report on…

Right after Exchange 2010 was released, I was quoted in Network World stating that none of our GroupID customers planned to move to it immediately.  I immediately received two responses, one customer contacted me on Twitter and said he was very soon.  And one guy stated in the comments that the obvious reason I said…

In the last few years many organizations have been through at least one round of layoffs, reduction in force or organizational restructuring. Going through that process is painful and challenging in a host of ways, including the effects on the morale of the remaining employees.   Organizations are running increasingly lean and in most cases the…