To those of you with runny noses and watery eyes, it will come as no big surprise that it’s allergy season. And, lucky you, if you do have allergies you most likely have more than one. No problem, just take that one big dose (or shot, or drop) that covers them all, right? Sadly, wrong. Treatment for dust mites won’t help for ragweed. Trees and dogs occupy different categories.

Kind of like all those people with their different devices. In this BYOD world we work in, it’s an IT nightmare of different passwords, user names, authentication and security needs. Enough to make eyes water and throats itch. One solution can’t possibly cover all these bases, right? Happily, wrong.

Using Centrify as an “immunity” boost for our existing, familiar Active Directory, our users (PC and MAC) can access a variety of websites from both their desktops and their mobile devices simply by using their existing AD credentials. Centrify also gives them useful tools that allows them to reset their passwords as needed, track the location of their mobile devices, and remote-lock and remote-wipe their mobile devices. One password does it all!

Granting access to these services, while still being able to maintain our privacy (and our customer's privacy) is game changing, but still requires that we keep a vigilant watch on how our internal services interact with our external services. Salesforce,

Google, Office365, WebEX, Box, DropBox, Zendesk and many more already support Centrify directly so it's simple to configure them to work with our Active Directory logins. And we don't even need to open ports on our firewall to do it.

Happy users, less-stressed IT people; it’s a beautiful balance that bring tears to my eyes…or it could be allergies.

Rid yourself of bothersome AD integration symptoms! click here.