Years ago, I heard a stat that the average user gets provisioned into 16 directories when hired and deprovisioned from only 10 directories when leaving. For the math challenged, that leaves the ex-user active in 6 directories. Which is, of course, a problem. Today’s IT infrastructures are big and complex and there are lots of nooks…
I just read an interesting study on CIO Insight which looked at how the success of enterprise software deployment was measured and evaluated. There are some great details, but one of the the bottom line conclusions is that if your users are not using, then the project is seen as unsuccessful by C suite management. Nearly…
Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) has been getting a lot of interest based on codeless sync and codeless provisioning. Carol Wapshere talks a bit about how it’s not all it’s cracked up to be on her excellent blog, Miss MIIS. She discusses a few key points about the limitations of FIM’s codeless synchronization and points out…
Do you ever look at your Global Address List (GAL) and say, “what is the point of that group? Is anyone even using it?” Chances are if the IT department is wondering that, then end users are wondering the same thing. And if that is happening, chances are you have a lot of unused distribution…
The best way to show the power of GroupID’s Active Directory provisioning is to demonstrate it in action. When at trade shows, we’ve found an interesting way to show the ease and power of Active Directory provisioning to attendees by using their own identity data. When they swipe their badge, we provision them as Active…
This use case is a bit different…you are an Exchange administrator who wants to manage your Exchange distribution lists by spreadsheets. You want to have end users give you a spreadsheet of members they want in the Active Directory group and you are going to manage it. You could use ADUC if you are a…