Yep you are describing a typical large org that's been built on mergers and acquisitions. Some are further along at integration, others haven't started. Usually when CIOs are looking for a good "save money" project this rolls straight to the top as long as whoever is doing the accounting is using a special calculator that makes centralization projects look cheap and successful.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 6:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Active Directory Responsibility question On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: > I've seen quite a few customers where AD ops falls under the security > umbrella. This is really a management chain discussion in the end. Not really AD specific, but: In some of the large aerospace companies I've dealt with as customers of %DAYJOB%, their management structure seems to be very distributed. I suspect this stems from their history of merges on top of mergers. So they'll have local IT and security departments with a fair degree of autonomy, and then corporate supervision. Different office locations will have different "standards". Makes for interesting an interesting time when you try and integrate systems. It appears some offices look to a corporate AD department, while some have the local guys running their own show. And then there's outsourced services, where we can't talk to the people doing the work, but the people we can talk to don't know anything. There's one particular SharePoint "extranet" site we're supposed to be using. They've been trying for over a year to get it to work and they still can't. But I digress. :) At %DAYJOB%, we only have 120 people, and the IT department is me and another guy. If it uses 1s and 0s, it's our responsibility. (If it uses electricity and it's greasy or wet, it's maintenance, otherwise, IT.) That includes Active Directory. Also servers, desktops, networks, applications, phones, IT security, Internet, BlackBerry, electronic door locks, printers/scanners/fax... :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
