After working with Active Directory for longer than I care to confess, the term ‘Zero Trust’ has bubbled up just about everywhere I look. For years, I ignored it, mostly because it sounds too good to be true. I assumed – as with some industry buzzwords…

Hannah Montana was right: you can have the best of both worlds. Though the late 2000s teen queen was singing about her secret double life as a high-flying pop star and a down-to-earth high school student, it turns out that that life goal now also applies…

Using the single, familiar Active Roles interface, there is no longer a need to be constantly switching between consoles, and writing complex scripts in an attempt to automate, because Active Roles does it for you. 

Creation of a user, for example, can…

With version 7.1, the One Identity Active Roles solution has expanded its scope to cover both on-prem AD (as its always done) and Azure AD. Here’s an explanation of how it works.

The ADSI provider serves as the interface between the Active Roles…

Over the past couple of years Azure Active Directory and Office 365 have been quietly and steadily gaining ground within our businesses. While many administrators have been busy managing their environments, the level of effort involved in their daily…

Organizations are sprinting to Office 365. In fact, users will have to convert by Oct. 13, 2020 as support for Office 2020 ceases that day. By then, many organizations will be 100-percent cloud, but most are so heavily invested in legacy infrastructure…

The cloud isn’t coming — it’s here. And the quicker we all get on board, the better off we’ll be, right?!

Digital transformation, IT modernization projects and cost-control initiatives all point to the cloud as the easiest, most…

The Challenge

The Challenge

Active Roles Access Templates are a terrific way of delegating access to Active Directory. They make securing Active Directory both simpler and more powerful. Access Templates can secure Active Directory at the object, attribute…

Active Directory holds such a prominent position in the enterprise, that inadequate management and security of this universally accepted directory can be a major barrier to IAM success. For all its goodness, AD is woefully lacking in native management…