Misadventures in Group Management

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Our IT shop manages our college’s Active Directory objects. We leverage the AD for a variety of permissions and emailing needs, so it is important to keep our lists up-to-date. Many groups are ad-hoc, but, increasingly, we are using our college personnel directory to indirectly manage our AD memberships. I’ll overview some of the tools we’re using and the duct-tape and bubble gum that’s holding it together.