Adventures in identity management
Another off-topic post today, because lately it’s all been migrations – Exchange migrations, data migrations, printer migrations…. I think I might have to rename this blog Miss Migrations! As part of an enourmous data migration involving server name and drive letter changes, I was tasked with repairing links in thousands of Excel spreadsheets. We trialled…
Note June 2011: This post gets a lot of hits but is very old now. I haven’t revisited the powershell-Excel story since writing this post and it may well be a lot easier now. I would love nothing better than to do one ILM project after another, but it doesn’t always pan out like that,…
You don’t always have access to a proper IdM system. At the moment I’m at an organisation which still uses the old, manual ways of updating AD. I was asked if I knew an easy way to update the mobile phone numbers of a list of users, the data having been sent to Helpdesk in…