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…
I hesitate to call a QBDL by its other name, QBDG, because it isn’t a group. In fact of all of the letters in the acronym “Q” is really the pertinent one. The reason is that a Query Based Distribution List isn’t a list or a group, it is a query and only a query. …
One of the primary responsibilities for IT is to actively help their organization’s users stay productive. If the overall workload required to do that is 100 units of help, you can bet that your organization’s current capacity is somewhat south of that number, most likely less than half. If your organization is like most, you…
I admit to being a big fan of Centrify so I was especially pleased to find this “chalktalk” they were giving on the same day that I was researching Group Based Access Control (GBAC). The premise of my research was that Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is too limiting, trying to fit a square user into…