{"id":337,"date":"2013-08-05T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T01:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b2.rayharwood.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2013-08-05T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T01:22:20","slug":"first-software-project-group-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"First project: Group Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first commercial development project is called Group Manager. This program does one thing: it lets Windows users add and remove members from security groups. Nothing magic, you say?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Consider this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That is <strong>all<\/strong> this program does.  Designed primarily for the average non-system administrator, it doesn&#8217;t distract them with a lot of options.  What group do you want to manage? Pick from a list.  Who do you want to add or remove?  Easy to use.<\/li>\n<li>The free version only let&#8217;s a user maintain groups which they <em>manage<\/em> in AD.  The paid version lets the system administrator designate groups via other means.  More on paid versions later!<\/li>\n<li>The free version only lets you update AD groups if you have write privileges in AD.  The paid version allows system admins to set up a privileged proxy service account with privileges, and the user is then not given privileged access in other AD manipulation programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first commercial development project is called Group Manager. This program does one thing: it lets Windows users add and[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grpmgr","category-dev"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B5b0-5r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}