I read an article today that stated that the help desk costs related to Active Directory password resets are as high as $300,000 per year for a 1,000 employee company. That seems pretty high. Basically, that’s stating that in a 1,000 employee company, there are 3 to 5 full time help desk employees furiously resetting…
There is an annoying tension in IT between security and productivity; complexity and simplicity; passwords and users. The more complex a password is, the more secure it is. And the more likely it will be forgotten. Think about it, who can remember $n0OpD@wGl33t? Or type it without your hands cramping? But, your main goal is…
Imanami is pleased to announce GroupID 6, available immediately for customers and evaluators. GroupID 6 continues to promote directory and group management for Active Directory, bringing three new key features into the GroupID suite: Active Directory history tracking Self Service Password Reset Ability for users to opt in to smart groups Active Directory history tracking…
I was recently searching on Google about Active Directory security group expiration (because GroupID does that and I wanted to make sure Google knows that we do it) and came across an interesting post on the petri.il forums. This post details a script that will give a list of user accounts that have a password set to…