It was announced at the 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Summit that Quest Software was won for Active Directory Partner of the Year. http://www.digitalwpc.com/Awards#Advanced-Infrastructure-Solutions-Active-Directory-Partner-of-the-Year
Shortly after my receiving the notification about Quick Connect for Lotus Notes, I received a note that Quick Connect for Online Services went gold also. The vision for Quick Connect for Online Services is that it will provision cloud based application like Google Premier which provides Internet based applications and collaboration. Like ActiveRoles Quick Connect [...]
The presents in my inbox just keep arriving. A few moments ago I received notice that ActiveRoles Quick Connect for Lotus notes went gold today. Now that I have recieved the Gold code from my development team, work on delivering the public release can begin. The public release process involves coordinating the various groups within [...]
I had breakfast with a colleague from Microsoft this morning and so I was late getting into the office today. When I arrived I had a little present waiting for me in my inbox; the Quick Connect 4.0.3 gold code. This was a surprise treat because it was delivered a little earlier than expected. This is [...]
As a follow up to the article in Advanced for Health Information’s artical about Childrens Memorial Hospital, Quest has published a case study with some additional detail about how Childrens went about achiving such valuable results in such a short amount of time. http://www.quest.com/Quest_Site_Assets/SuccessStories/CSW_CMH-ARSPM-US-MJ.pdf
This is amazing. Children’s Memorial Hospital in Illinois automated user account provisioning, deprovisioning and access managment in just 5 days, using ActiveRoles Server and Quest Password Manager. (I hear our customers telling me this over and over, but it always looks better in print.) http://health-care-it.advanceweb.com/Article/Simplifying-User-Access-and-Provisioning-2.aspx
Version 1.2.2 of the Quest AD CMDLETS has shipped. This release resolves several minor incompatilbity issues with Quest’s popular PowerGUI PowerShell graphical interface. Additionally, several small issues with CMDLET functionality have been resolved. You can get the new version here: http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx
We are getting very-very close to shipping version 1.2.2 of the Active Directory CMDLETS. This release will improve compatiblity with Quest’s PowerGUI graphical interface for PowerShell. Check back between now and friday for an announcment about our release.
Google released an utility for Microsoft Outlook that moves the user’s backend mail service from Microsoft Exchagne to Google Premier Service. Essentially, the user runs the Google solution which then copies e-mail, calendar items, contacts etc… from the user’s old Exchange Server to the user’s Google Premier account. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQcwW9hNRMk
I will be delivering a web cast talking about the ActiveRoles Server product and how it can make your Active Directory less costly and more secure through administrative efficiency and automation. I do these periodically to let people know what a great solution we have built in ActiveRoles. For session dates and times visit, http://www.quest.com/events/ListDetails.aspx?ContentID=9193
