Many organizations that use Active Directory also use Google for applications and communications. Google has a database for user accounts, which need to be created...
Dynamic group membership based on user properties
When a group fails to contain the correct members, access to resources or to a network application could fail. So, ensuring that group membership is...
Display name for users in Active Directory
Have you noticed that in Windows not everything is as it seems? For example, Group Policy has nothing to do with groups? The displayname attribute...
Automating user account membership in another domain
This content might be a bit of a refresher for some, but it is important to always think out of the box when dealing with...
Ensuring users can reset their passwords and unlock their accounts remotely
Ensuring users can reset their passwords and unlock their accounts remotely As many of you know, our ADSelfService Plus product allows employees to reset their...
Updating Active Directory users in bulk
Do you have user accounts in Active Directory that have incorrect attribute configurations? For example, did someone add the job role to the display name...
Allow technicians to unenroll user accounts from ADSelfService Plus
When employees leave an organization, their Active Directory account needs to be cleaned up and secured. The employees’ user account must be protected and, after...
Auditors vs. admins
As security becomes more and more important each day, there is a need for the IT community to understand the differences between auditors and administrators....
Managing the creation of new Active Directory user accounts with duplicate usernames
I keep getting questions about how to handle duplicate usernames during new Active Directory user accounts. Even as organizations are moving to the cloud, cleaning...