#dynamic groups

Static AD Group Membership to Dynamic in Azure Active Directory

Introduction Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)security group’s membership change from Static to Dynamic (or vice-versa) in Microsoft Entra. Azure AD keeps the same group name and ID in the system, so all existing references to the group are still valid. If you create a new group instead, you would need to update those references. Dynamic group membership eliminates management overhead by adding…

Combining Dynamic Groups with Custom Properties in Solarwinds.

Custom properties are great for recording information in fields that Solarwinds doesn’t provide by default.

Assigning permissions to Organizational Units (OUs) simplifies administration tasks. This is especially relevant after migrations.  The following article exemplifies how you can create and use self-updating OU groups in Active Directory. Contents1 Dynamic Groups in AD1.1 Advantages of Dynamic G...

Read the full Article http://activedirectoryfaq.com/2017/01/dynamic-ou-groups-assign-permissions-to-ous/

In Microsoft’s Active Directory groups are used to manage permissions and access to shares and apps. But with a big number of users accounts the group management becomes time-consuming for many admins. Dynamic group memberships would reduce administrative overhead here and prevent...

Read the full Article http://activedirectoryfaq.com/2015/09/automated-group-memberships-dynamically/

A new interesting feature we are actually coding in KermIT web application is Dynamic Groups. You can define a rule to group servers (and later, all kind of resources) and will be automatically added to this group if they match the rule. In this way, any new server added (or removed) to KermIT network will appear (or disappear) in the correct group with no manual interaction for the admin user.

[video src="http://www.mornati.net/video_kermit/video/KermIT%20-%20Dynamic%20Groups.mp4" width="100%"]

In the video you can see how you can create dynamic groups and how servers are added to a group (with a simple refresh operation) but, as I said, this function is still in development and you can actually create dynamic groups based on faster facts.

Stay tuned for news about this cool feature! :D