Archive for August, 2009

Why did Motorola choose Google Apps? (2009-8-25)

Motorola Mobile Device division choose Google Apps as their primary email and office application platform. They put together a nice marketing video for Google explaining their decision to choose Google over other offerings.

Get off your duff and speak at TEC 2010!!! (2009-8-24)

The Call for Papers for TEC 2010 – happening in Los Angeles from April 25-28, at the JW Marriott LA Live Hotel, is now open. And it won’t be open for long! (Aug. 25, 2009 is the deadline but late applications will be accepted.) Visit http://www.tec2010.com/call-for-papers/index.html If you have an Exchange talk worthy of this [...]

NetIQ Active Directory Survey, Nothing New (2009-8-21)

NetIQ put out an interesting press release about a study they conducted with results that unveil nothing new. The results seem to say that Security is important to keeping your Active Directory safe from inadvertant or malicious changes. What surprised me was that they needed to do a study to figure this out sooner. I [...]

Release Canidate for Exchange 2010 (2009-8-19)

I didn’t get a chance to blog about yesterday, but Late Monday the Mcirosoft Exchange team shipped a Release Canidate which esentially is a final beta of the product. It appears they are still on track to have a late year release. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/08/17/451976.aspx

New: Sharing to groups for Google Docs (2009-8-19)

Google continues to improve their cloud service by adding the ability to share content to a group of additional users.  This means you can setup a group and grant it the ability to contribute to your google apps data and so when people are joined to the group they get the permissions you have given [...]

Do you know DLT Solutions? (2009-8-18)

DLTSolutions help your government agency or business overcome real-world challenges through its broad selection of best-in-class information technology products and superior services available on your procurement vehicle of choice. In a nutshell DLT figures out how to let Government agencies buy products and services from companies like the one that employees me; Quest Software. If [...]

Sign-up now for the ActiveRoles Server User Group at TEC Berlin! (2009-8-18)

The ActiveRoles Server User Group Meeting at TEC Europe in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday, 16 September, from 13:30 to 16:30 at the Hilton Berlin is developing some interest.  We’ll discuss how to best leverage ActiveRoles Server’s provisioning and day-to-day Active Directory management capabilities. We’ll cover deployment scenarios and provide a special preview of ActiveRoles Server 6.5 [...]

Privilege Account Management: a logical evolution of Provisioning (2009-8-17)

Martin Kuppinger of the analyst firm KUPPINGERCOLE wrote an interesting article on how the Siemens DirX Identity provisioning product added Privilege Account Management as a core component. See Is PAM (or PIM or PUM) moving into Provisioning? To me this makes sense from both an infrastructure and resource perspective. It is pretty clear to most [...]

Planet Earth is Broke, let the astorides fall… (2009-8-15)

Apparently NASA ran out of money, so we are no longer watching for Earth destroying asteroids. This is one way to solve the US’s Heath Care problems. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/08/nasa-asteroid-tracking-program-stalled-due-to-lack-of-funds.ars

ActiveRoles Server – Q2 Strong Results (2009-8-14)

This is cool… Doug Garn the Quest Software President & CEO talks about the strenth of ActiveRoles Server during the Quest Q2 earnings call… “From an Active Directory management perspective, our Active Directory tools business was very strong in Q2. ActiveRoles Server continues to deliver on the promise of providing a secure way to manage [...]