Whenever the topic of moving to the cloud comes up, it’s inevitable that the topic of security also arises. And rightly so: the cloud can create a host of security risks concerning who has access to services and data, from both an IT and an end-user perspective. A recent article on SharePoint adoption cited the…
When Users need to control their own SharePoint portals, delegate Active Directory group membership management One of the best practices as it relates to group management is to delegate what you cannot automate. This concept is true especially when you’re an organization that uses SharePoint and want to move leverage Active Directory Groups. Microsoft provided a…
Use GroupID to leverage ABAC concepts for intelligent SharePoint memberships What you know about your staff is usually what drives identifying what resources they need in order to be productive. For example, you may know that a person who works in your Chicago office and is responsible for the marketing of a new upcoming product…
SharePoint is one of the fastest-growing applications in the enterprise. It has many uses and some of those uses have given rise to its popularity such as a collaborative tool for small groups of people, being used as a document repository, and a centralized communications portal for an organization. The problem with SharePoint however is…
While reading Gartner’s research paper titled, “Identity in SharePoint 2010” by Kevin Kampman, I was struck by one particular phrase that is at the heart of the Active Directory or SharePoint group debate: “visibility is not provided into domain group memberships; SharePoint administrators cannot directly examine the members of an Active Directory group, although it…
I don’t mean to imply that a lot of SharePoint deployments become shelfware. Nor do I intend that this post will be an exhaustive list of the reasons SharePoint is or isn’t used. But, based on my experience, I know why a lot of SharePoint deployments go stale. Groups. Groups are a good and bad thing. …
‘Tis the season of holiday cheer and peace on Earth, so it seems the right time to ask why can’t Active Directory and SharePoint administrators be friends? They seem to play with the same things. Our research shows that more than 85% of companies are using Active Directory security groups to provide permission to SharePoint…
There is a long continuing debate on using SharePoint groups or Active Directory groups for SharePoint site access. Based on our own poll (in the nav bar to the right) and the one on SharePointEdu Tech, approximately 85-90% of admins use either Active Directory groups exclusively or partially for granting access. My guess as to…
I was reading a great article over at Dave Coleman’s SharePoint and Technology Blog, SharePointEduTech. He proposed a simple question, SharePoint or AD groups to permission your SharePoint deployment. As a vendor in the discussion, I feel uncomfortable commenting in his article but was very relieved to see that 56% of respondents use AD groups…
Most people know that when you construct a SharePoint site you can grant permissions a couple of ways. You can assign it user by user (time consuming and tiresome) or you can use groups. But what type of group to use? You can either use a group created in SharePoint (a SharePoint group), or you…