Unless you’ve been living in an IT-less cave for the last 16 years, you’re probably well aware of the Managed By field in an Active Directory group, as well as the option to allow that specified manager to update group membership. When Microsoft created those fields, the intention was surely to help organizations distribute the…
It seems that any tasks that are “tech-related” fall into the hands of IT. It’s been that way as long as I can remember. Managing groups in Active Directory is no different: It is something that IT takes care of — mostly because groups exist within a system (Active Directory) for which most users haven’t…
Asking this question might be considered edgy, so I’ll start by answering: No. Well, not exactly — not on purpose anyway. As an IT professional, you might ask yourself, “Seriously? Insider Threats are my fault?” I’m certainly not trying to alienate you. I’ve been in IT for over 20 years and know the hard work…
Active Directory Management Wasting Your Time? If you are like millions of other people in this world, when you look at yourself and how you manage time you may come to the conclusion that you are a procrastinator, a day-dreamer, or just someone who wastes their daylight hours on tasks that are not well prioritized.…
Appreciation of admins through delegation of control An anecdotal story of how one company showed appreciation for secretaries and admins In honor of Administrative Professional’s Day (Secretaries Day or Admin Day), I wanted to share an experience I had while talking to one of our customer’s recently. It is after all, these very important people…
Projecting your on-premise Active Directory groups into your M365 hosted Exchange You still need Active Directory even though you have outsourced Exchange to Microsoft via M365. So, how do you manage it? You want your user attributes to be accurate, group memberships up to date, unused groups expired, and security groups to be, well, secure. …
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So behold this novella: Imanami’s GroupID won the Best Windows Product award at the recent Windows Connections conference in Las Vegas. Our HQ lobby is filled with awards and plaques and other achievements but I find this one a little more satisfying than most. Why? Because…
Imanami has been chosen as a SINET 16 Innovator and asked to present at the annual SINET Showcase. Each year, a select group of technology companies that can improve efficiency and security at government agencies are asked to present and demonstrate their solutions. Imanami’s GroupID will help solve identity management security problems from group-based access control…
As usual at TechEd, we got a great reaction to our shirt. That is kind of a given, we spend a lot of time designing a wearable t-shirt, something that has our message but also doesn’t scream “I am wearing a free t-shirt from a tech conference.” You know, because those are the shirts that…
For the past 6 weeks I have anxiously awaited Windows IT Pro’s review of the GroupID product suite. After speaking to the reviewer, Russell Smith, and giving him a demo of the product, I knew he understood what we do and the business problems that we solve. But I had no idea how the actual…