One of the things that jumped out at me in our recent survey seemed to be confirmed by visiting with a number of folks who stopped by our booth at TechEd. People are using Active Directory to secure SharePoint groups! Our survey showed that nearly 50% of organizations are, and based on the conversations we…
I attended a great webinar by Logic Trends today. In it they discussed their methodology to cleaning up and ensuring the long term health of Active Directory. The first step, as always, is to identify the problem. They have a methodology that begins with AD reporting, in fact, their own AD reporting tool covers some…
There are two common use cases for kiosk access to Active Directory self service. The first one is very straight forward, allow end users the ability to log in and update their Active Directory profile or search a corporate phone book. We have had the second one less often but often enough that we have…
We recently commissioned a study with Osterman Research to find out what organizations use Active Directory groups for. Part of it is selfish, we make Active Directory group management solutions, and it would be nice to know that the market is big enough. But the other, more important, factor is to make sure that we…
I am the kind of person that thinks that a person can never know too much. Clearly I am not the person who should be in charge of securing the enterprise! I was reminded of this in a great slideshow which says 87% of organizations think that their employees have too much access to information…
I recently watched a demonstration of Forefront Identity Manager’s implementation of dynamic security groups, a feature that GroupID Automate has had since its inception. The FIM query designer appeared to do a pretty good job and I was beginning to see where it would fit into the marketplace when at the 45 minute mark, the speaker…