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…
In each of my YouTube chalk-talks where I have created dynamic Active Directory groups, I paused to admire the section where GroupID provides the specific PowerShell command that would create that group in Active Directory. It is an excellent feature that allows our customers to script some of these commands into existing processes. The word…
Think about all of the data that you have in your infrastructure. I’d bet that most of it isn’t in Active Directory. And yet, you would still like to use it for our favorite activity: creating dynamic active directory groups. Here’s an example: HR keeps employees with union membership in a database, safe from prying…