Managing

Managing LDAP groups in the Enterprise

Managing LDAP groups in the Enterprise Today’s enterprise-sized businesses have moved beyond the single on-premises directory. The need to leverage platforms and applications that reside outside the four proverbal walls of the organization have resulted in an uptick in the use of 3rd party LDAP directories within these environment, whether hosted on-prem, in a corporate…

Defining Roles in Active Directory

Defining Roles when Delegating Access

When Active Directory first came out, we were all happy just to have a few levels of administrative granularity. There were the domain admins, a few admins over servers, local admin privileges across all the workstations, and — if you were really cutting edge — perhaps some kind of custom delegation to a specific service…

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Synchronizing Active Directory user attributes with an HR database

Nobody’s Active Directory is perfect.  And by “perfect” I mean with accurate identity information.  Users are an ever-changing group, they switch jobs, last names, phone numbers, cubicles, departments, and projects.  The users know this information but, guess what, IT doesn’t always. So Active Directory gets lonely and out of date.  Eventually, nobody’s identity information is…