Pamela Dingle made some excellent observations about the Quest TEC conference that was held last week. In here blog she spoke about the value of TEC over larger conferences. I think many of us TEC attendees have had the same feelings, but Pam put it into words. Check Out the here blog post here.
My Friday post seems to have been too optimistic about Microsoft’s April launch of ILM 2 (See http://www.bobbobel.com/ilm-2-news/ ). Yesterday morning Microsoft announced that ILM 2 wouild be delayed until sometime next year at the earliest. I know there are not only going to be customers upset by this news, but also 3rd party software [...]
On Friday I had a nice little gift from my development team in my inbox; the RTM bits for version 1.2 of our PowerShell AD CMDLETS. Don’t get too excited it will take a little while for us to make them generally available, but you won’t have to long to wait. BTW, if you happen [...]
April is going to be a big month for Microsoft, after the delays and then cancelations of GEMINI and Password Portal Microsoft will introduce ILM 2. I know folks like Omada, Ensync and Oxford as well as the Microsoft field sales reps are pinning their hopes on ILM 2 to make sales in this sluggish [...]
Q: What do you get when you combine SUN & IBM A: IBM It is funny how our world works. I was just attended a seminar by SUN, when this article about SUN came across my desk Read the article here. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html Immediately, I realized how painful this is going to be for the folks [...]
The latest version of our Quick Connect solution was made available today to the public. The Quick Connect 4.0.2 update provides improved connectivity to Oracle databases as well as SUN and Novell directories. If you are an ActiveRoles Quick Connect customer you can download the new version from here. Download One of the major design [...]
ActiveDir.org was started by Tony Murray in January 2001 and is now run by Tony together with Matty Holland (who is responsible for the development of the website). I have had the excellent fortune to work with Tony on several ocasions and it was easy to see why he was able to create such a [...]
I was recently asked why I shout “Pineapple” to single the end of particularly horrendous planning or development meetings. I became addicted to using the word shortly after seeing this video Click for the Pineapple Video.
A assocate here at Quest sent this article to me that discusses some of the challenges around Cloud Computer aka Software as a Service. Issues identifyed in the article are typical of any new technology specifically: fear of vendor lock-in and lack of standards. Essentially the author, Mary Brandel suggests that Cloud computing is more [...]
