SharePoint Group Management

We’ve noticed recently that in may SharePoint projects companies will develop static security solutions that don’t allow the organisation to move with the times.

Typically a company will set up a couple of security groups and will select these in the SharePoint Group Populator, but the membership of these groups remains static and the organization doesn’t benefit from either the SharePoint security model or features such as requesting access to or being granted access to limited site areas such as project or financial data delivered again through group membership.

Using groups to manage SharePoint access is most definitely the correct and best way to deploy SharePoint security but it shouldn’t end there.

Using GroupID 5.0’s Automate module the company can automatically maintain group memberships based on values held within the Active Directory, which means your SharePoint access is always up to date.

Additionally and just as importantly, the Self Service module in GroupID 5.0 allows the company to develop a group membership request and workflow solution as well as devolving areas of group management down to individual group owners (these could be managers responsible for specific SharePoint content access).

We’ll be developing a white paper and perhaps a podcast on this very subject soon, so keep a lookout for these.

InfaTech to Head up Imanami European Sales Network

InfaTech and Imanami are pleased to announce the development of a Europe-wide reseller scheme for the furtherment and sale of Imanami software across the region.

This reseller network will be headed by InfaTech in their position of major European partner, and InfaTech will co-ordinate the engagement with active resellers who will be in a position to sell, deploy, customise and support Imanami’s GroupID 5.0 suite of applications.

Phil Kelly, technical director at InfaTech said “the release of GroupID 5.0 was an exciting event for Infant Technology and Imanami and we have already seen unprecedented interest in the product. More and more customers are looking to GroupID to manage their security groups both manually (via Self Service) or automatically, especially in SharePoint installations. This new European reseller network which we will organize will help to drive home the Imanami group management message in existing territory and to allow us to cultivate new interest in new market areas”.

The European reseller network will build on the successes of Infant Technology (in the UK, Sweden and Ireland) and Cerberis (France), where client installations of Imanami software range from 100 to 250,000-user solutions.

Edward Killeen, VP of Sales and Marketing at Imanami says “this is an exciting time for Imanami and we wanted to include InfaTech in on the latest wave of product development and distribution. InfaTech have been working as our major European partner since 2003 and we wanted them to help us to solidify and underpin our European presence”.