We all know that the economy has cut IT staffing to the bone.  While there seems to be some rebounding from the lows of last year, organizations are still running very lean. Healthcare IT organizations are in a particularly difficult place.  At the same time that their IT staff has been cut to meet shrinking budgets…

In many organizations, Active Directory provisioning consists of a series of manual processes and emails and help desk calls that ultimately finish with an employee having a network login and hopefully an Exchange email account.  It is ripe with potential for errors and just not a good use of limited resources. But then the problem…

One of the tricks of Active Directory management is the fine balance between usability for end users and performance.  A great example of this is the usability of security groups.  Active Directory security groups are an excellent tool for granting access to network resources.  You could be tempted to load up a user with security…

SharePoint is becoming ever more popular, especially with the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010.  SharePoint is an excellent tool for communication but we’re getting more and more questions about how to use Active Directory’s group structure to manage access.  Large enterprises with thousands of users need a simpler way to manage SharePoint access. Some tips…

In a recent survey, we found that managing groups in Active Directory is painful or very painful for 25% of respondents and only 6% found it to be no problem at all.  It’s pretty obvious why this is considered painful, 81% of all organizations have a manual process for managing Active Directory groups. And despite…