Archive for February, 2009

QuestOne Wins SC Magazine Award (2009-2-27)

Quest One, led by ActiveRoles Server, won SC Magazine’s Identity Managment Best-Buy award. There is a great screen shot Access Manager. You can read the article here! http://www.quest.com/Quest_Site_Assets/PDF/QuestOneWinsSCMagazineBestBuy2009.pdf

Microsoft’s AD PowerShell Blog (2009-2-27)

The Active Directory Powershell team just launched a new blog talking about their project to build AD CMDLETS. It is exciting to see that PowerShell support for AD is going into the platform. Haveing gone through this type of project (see http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx), I’m sure they are as excited as we were to tackle this. For [...]

Procrastination: TEC (2009-2-26)

I finally got my registration completed for TEC (http://www.tec2009.com). I can’t wait to see everyone again this year. I fully admit that i procrastinated, but just like the previous 4 years the registration process is really-really simple. The registration form allso allowed me to confirm a hotel room… this was a real one-stop-shop for regitration. [...]

Safari 4 gets a SPEEDY makeover (2009-2-24)

Apple released a version 4.0 beta of the Safari browser. One difference to Microsoft’s browser is that it appears to be blazing fast… “Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3″ http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49301219,00.htm

Problem: Access Security is on the Resource (2009-2-20)

My respected Quest Software associate Gil Kirkpatrick authored a whitepaper that clearly articulates the challenges of managing resource access across a Microsoft based network. To me the interesting part of the topic goes beyond Microsoft technology to any other network security system where security goes with the resources – such is the case with claims [...]

Interview in Enterprise Systems Journal: Access Management (2009-2-10)

I did a Q & A style interview with James Powel for Enterprise Systems Journal a couple of weeks back talking about IT challenges around granting Access. I had completely forgotten that the interview had happened, but I actually had a lot of fun doing it, and hope it shed some light on what I [...]

Visit to Cologne, Germany (2009-2-8)

I am traveling around Germany this week visiting customers and prospects to talk about ActiveRoles. My friend Dirk and his girlfriend showed me around Cologne this afternoon and I was fortunate enough to see some of the local flavor. In the center of Koln is the Cathedral. If you have a chance to see this [...]

SummerZCool – Buffet Tour Dates (2009-2-4)

Well, well, well. Here we are again with summer looming in front of us. Despite the depression cause to many of us by that furry little groundhog, a sign from a different source give us hope summer will soon be here/hear. That is right, Jimmy Buffet has announced his 2009 SummerZCool tour dates begining in [...]