Barnett Consulting Group · Enterprise Identity Engineering · Data & AI

Most enterprise environments are one audit away from a crisis.

We're the team you call when the forest is too big, the migration is too risky, or the auditors are already on their way. 26+ years of senior identity engineering for global enterprises, financial services, and large public-sector organizations — now extending that same discipline to identity for AI agents and machine workloads.

About BCG

Barnett Consulting Group exists because enterprise Active Directory migrations rarely fail in the technology. They fail in the planning, the politics, and the operational discipline. After 26 years of running them inside Fortune 500 environments, federal agencies, and global financial institutions, BCG was built specifically to bring that discipline to engagements that cannot afford a learning curve.

Every engagement BCG takes on shares a common shape: complex, consequence-bearing identity work that ends with operational documentation other engineers can run from. The principal does the work, and we do not leave behind a directory that depends on us to keep running.

What We Do

Six capabilities, four industries — built from 26 years of running and rebuilding enterprise Active Directory at scale.

Capabilities

  • Active Directory Architecture

    Forest-and-domain design, site topology, replication, OU structure, delegation, Red Forest (ESAE) hardening, and privileged-access integration with CyberArk and similar vaults.

  • Multi-Forest Migrations

    Cross-forest user, computer, group-policy, and login-script migrations using Quest tooling (ARS, GPOAdmin, RMAD, RUM Manager). Acquisition, divestiture, and consolidation engagements.

  • Group Policy Engineering

    Forest-level GPO design, security baselines, change control, login-script modernization, and remediation of audit findings.

  • AD Governance & Identity Hygiene

    Identity discovery, group rationalization, ownership and lifecycle frameworks, computer-object hygiene, and AI-assisted PowerShell automation that makes cleanup repeatable at scale.

  • Day-2 Operations

    Production AD support across domain controllers and member servers — on-premises, hybrid Azure AD / M365, or both. Patching, replication health, troubleshooting, and runbook delivery.

  • Identity for AI Agents & Machine Workloads

    Service accounts have been the unmanaged corner of every directory for 20 years. AI agents, MCP servers, and autonomous workloads are about to make that problem an order of magnitude worse. BCG brings the same discipline applied to human identity — ownership, lifecycle, least-privilege, auditability — to the non-human identities now multiplying across enterprise estates.

Industries

  • Financial Services & Capital Markets

    Trading-floor infrastructure, fixed-income electronic-trading platforms, and identity work inside bulge-bracket investment banks and prime brokers.

  • Government & Public Sector

    Federal-judiciary directory consolidation, city-scale agency identity consolidation, and 24/7 transit-infrastructure operations.

  • Professional Services

    Multi-forest global directory operations and identity-governance work at Fortune 500 scale.

  • Defense & Aerospace

    Identity infrastructure work inside a Fortune 500 aerospace and defense enterprise.

Tools & stack the practice runs on

PowerShell · Azure AD · M365 · CyberArk · Quest ARS · GPOAdmin · RMAD · ADRAP · DFS · DNS · DHCP · Kerberos · LDAP · Hyper-V · VMware vSphere · Windows Server 2003 → 2025 · GitHub (Repositories, Actions, Copilot)

How an engagement works

Most engagements follow the same five-stage shape, scaled to the size of the problem.

Stage 01

Discovery

A short paid scoping engagement. We read your environment: forests, sites, replication topology, GPO sprawl, and the audit findings nobody wants to talk about. You get a written assessment.

Stage 02

Design

Architecture and migration design documents specific to your environment. Not a Microsoft template — your forests, your constraints, your acquirers.

Stage 03

Build

Implementation, lab validation, and pilot rollout. Quest tooling (ARS, GPOAdmin, RMAD) where it earns its keep. PowerShell where it doesn't.

Stage 04

Cutover

Production migration windows, Red Forest hardening, ADRAP remediation, or whatever the engagement called for. Run by someone who has done it before, in environments larger than yours.

Stage 05

Handover

Operational runbooks, replication-health procedures, and Group Policy change-control documentation that your team can run from. The engagement ends when your engineers don't need to call us.

Typical engagement shapes

Forest-and-domain redesign · Multi-forest migration (acquisition or divestiture) · Red Forest / ESAE implementation · ADRAP remediation · Production AD stabilization · Senior advisory / fractional architect

Selected Engagements

Representative engagements at federal, public-sector, and Fortune 500 scale. Anonymized; details available under engagement.

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