Since I mentioned our work on SharePoint in may (see http://www.bobbobel.com/teched-day-2-sharepoint-and-ad-groups/) I’ve had a lot of request for more details. We have come a long way in the development cycle and so I wanted to share some details about our plans for a public beta that will happen in about one month’s time. In August [...]
I was at my local book store yesterday and as I was meandered through the computer section a name on one of the books caught my eye; it was my old friend Chris McCain. The book is titled Mastering VMWare Infrastructure and after spending fifteen minutes or so seems to be very comprehensive. (I actually [...]
New: ActiveRoles Quick Connect 4.0.3 Now Generally Available to the public. An update to the Quick Connect synchronization engine has been released. This is a maintenance update with several minor changes to support several new connectors being released at the same time. New: ActiveRoles Quick Connect for Lotus Notes extends ActiveRoles Server to quickly provision Lotus Notes [...]
Most legal or regulatory requirements simply state that both Access Controls and Attestation are required for an audit, but they don’t specify if those controls are to be paper based or part of an electronic workflow. Many organizations spend thousands of hours building a paper based set of controls and attestation process only to be [...]
First there is no built-in mechanism to enforce an attestation policy or help perform the access reviews. Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Active Directory use groups as the basic mechanism to control access to resources, and most non-Microsoft operating systems and directories use them as well. Because groups are universally accepted as the method by [...]
Attestation describes any certification review process where an individual swears to or witness/confirm something important. This term is almost universally used to describe a review/certification process that requires resource owners to verify their authorized users during on an on-going basis. This on-going process Attestation usually provides an organization with a measure of protection from liability [...]
Geneva is a new platform to slimply cloud based and on-premis Single Sign on. Official name for “Geneva” Active Directory Federation Services – formerly known as “Geneva” Server Windows Identity Foundation – formerly known as “Geneva” Framework Windows Cardspace – same as current version http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/archive/2009/07/13/microsoft-announces-official-name-for-geneva.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/geneva/en/us/
