Obtaining an accurate view of your workforce can be a challenging task in an organisation as large as the National Health Service (NHS). Human Resources (HR) departments must deal with a regular stream of starters, leavers and those changing roles. With a multitude of systems, HR teams are under pressure to ensure staff records are […]
Read more>>With health and care information assets fast becoming a compelling target for cybercrime, how secure is your Active Directory?
Threats of cybercrime are set to intensify over the next year as the uptake of digitisation rises within the public sector. Increasingly clinical workflows must be computerised to drive innovation and the dependency on technology grows. This must happen without compromising either the confidentiality, integrity or availability of patient and corporate data. With Microsoft Active […]
Read more>>Local Administrator Password Solution released by Microsoft
Information security is a complex subject comprised of many layers. A frequently overlooked layer is that of the Local Administrator password. As the name suggests, it is an all-powerful account on all clients and member servers. There are several approaches for the management of Local Administrator passwords within an organisation, however, until recently these have […]
Read more>>Digital Health makes site visit to BDS’s NWSIS headquarters
Ben Heather, News Editor from Digital Health, recently made a visit to the headquarters of the North West Shared Infrastructure Service (NWSIS) to find out why and how this model of connected community infrastructure has worked so well for more than ten years. NWSIS provides proven and tested infrastructure services and a governance model that […]
Read more>>Directory Manager – providing a central hub for Identity Management
Directory Manager helps to streamline workflows and keeps admin time down, as it connects the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), NHSmail and other administrative systems to automatically manage Active Directory, Exchange and other IT software and systems in place. If your NHS organisation has yet to deploy Directory Manager and if you would like to […]
Read more>>Providing HR teams with automated management of email addresses in ESR
Directory Manager is long established as the mechanism used by NHS IT teams to harness data from ESR to manage the creation and update of user accounts in Active Directory. The ESR integration module in Directory Manager has now been extended to provide a two-way relationship between Active Directory and ESR, facilitating an automated update […]
Read more>>The Art of Delivering a Successful Project
To be successful, a project must bring about change, delivered on schedule and within budget. Having worked on numerous assignments during my time at BDS Solutions I would like to share a few guiding principles which have helped us to retain loyal customers by delivering successful projects. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel – Adopting […]
Read more>>What’s new in Exchange 2016?
Microsoft state that Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 ‘brings a new set of technologies, features, and services to Exchange Server.’ Its goal is to support people and organizations as their work habits evolve from a communication focus to a collaboration focus. Key changes and innovations to Exchange Server 2016 include: Easier document collaboration for SharePoint and […]
Read more>>Have you noticed your group policies have stopped working?
On the 14th June Microsoft released KB3159398, this update was produced to close a potential Man in The Middle (MiTM) vulnerability. To achieve this update Microsoft has changed the approach to Group Policy permissions they have adopted for the last 16 years. Where we have restricted a GPO to only certain users and removed the […]
Read more>>Barts Health NHS Trust upgrades Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
BDS Solutions were engaged to upgrade a legacy Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 server for Barts Health NHS Trust (Barts) to the latest SCCM 2012 R2 version, a Windows product that enables administrators to manage the deployment and security of devices and applications across an organisation.
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