For the first time I can remember, NetIQ failed to appear at Microsoft’s TechEd event. If I remember correctly, the last serveral years they have had a pretty large booth and this year I just couldn’t find them. I did see a booth for Attachmate NetIQ’s parent company, but it didn’t seem to be talking [...]
The free e-book series titled, The Essentials Series: Tackling Active Directory’s Four Biggest Challenges (sponsored by Quest Software) was just posted as a free download on realtimepublisher.com web site. The four areas that are covered are: Article 1: Merging and Restructuring Domains without User Impact Article 2: Quickly Recovering Deleted Active Directory Objects Article 3: [...]
Jeffery Hicks, author of Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell, is going to be in Columbus Ohio delivering a week of intensive training on this very subject. Jeffery’s Boot camp style course is broken into two parts, 3 days intensive PowerShell training followed by another 2 optional days of super advanced topics. For more information [...]
I had a customer ask me if there was any way ActiveRoles could help them manage the Active Directory groups that were used to control user access to organization’s SharePoint sites. The problem the customer was having is that some SharePoint owners in the organization had not always used AD groups; more often they had [...]
Monday, Microsoft shipped Beta 2 the Geneva Claims Server with some interesting new goodies. 1. Federated document Collaboration with SharePoint 2007. Sharing documents inside and outside a user’s organization will be much simpler. 2. Visual Studio Templates providing pre-built security logic and .NET componants. 3. One-click Geneva to Federation Gateway setup to extend Active Directory [...]
Location – LA I’m at TechEd today and had the opertunity to talk to serveral of our customers. I also ran into several former colleges and had a chance to catch up on the new projects and fields they find themselves in. Most surprising of all was that the show was much smaller than the [...]
ActiveRoles has been nominated for best of TechEd… wish us luck!
Brian Desmond & Laura Hunter speakers at this years TEC (The Experts Conference) delivered a webcast on the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2. Both Brian and Laura have authored books on Active Directory for the publisher O’Reilly who sponsored the webcast. Their topics included, Active Directory Recycle Bin, Managed Service Accounts, Offline Domain [...]
