I was on vacation in Key West with my Family and my family was shopping I ducked into the famous Hemmigway Bar now called Captain Tony’s. This dude Melvin (or maybe Marvin) jumps up from his bar stool at starts singing with the house guitar player. He was awesome! This was one of the funniest things [...]
Microsoft is appealing to a higher court hoping to overule the Judge who on Tuesday (Aug 12th) found the giant had “unlawfully infringed” on a patent and ruled that sales of Microsoft Word should stop and Microsoft should pay a $240M fine to the Toronto based patent holder. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219200383
ActiveRoles Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration provides real-time Provisioning & Deprovisioning of SharePoint access. This integration extends the SharePoint access provision already in ActiveRoles Server. Today, ActiveRoles Server can automatically provision/deprovision in real-time SharePoint access if AD groups are used to grant access to SharePoint resources. With Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration, ActiveRoles [...]
Versions 6.0.x and 6.1 of ActiveRoles Server are approval aware, but working with approval tasks can be tricky. One of the most frequent requests was to perform custom reporting or automation of approval workflow; unfortunately this did not ship with ActiveRoles itself. In June we released an updated version of the ActiveRoles Management Shell for [...]
It is that time of year again – the call for TEC 2010 speakers has gone out. If you would like to speak at TEC 2010 you can submit your application through the TEC2010 web site. I’m excited about joining the fun at TEC Berlin next month which is looking very-very exciting based on the [...]
Please join us for an exclusive 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. 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 [...]
Have you heard of Role mining? Some of my southern relatives worked in coal mines and I’ll tell you Role mining doesn’t seem to be much less work. Role mining is the process by which user accounts in your organziation are mapped to application accounts, permissions, entitlments or resources. Myth: Role mining tells me what [...]
Quest’s The Expert’s Conference is on in Berlin Sept 14th to the 16th and I’ve been give the good fortune to attend. It will be great to see many of the folks that I’ve not seen for a year or so. If you haven’t signed up for TEC Europe yet, be sure to do so [...]
We have posted the public beta of Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration. This beta provides group synchronization between Active Directory and the SharePoint groups in the site of your choice allowing all of the ActiveRoles Server provisioning, deprovisioning, work-flow, self-service, attestation and temporal access management features to work immediately for SharePoint Access Managment. To [...]
We all hope not, but it could potentially be discontinued if Joltid Ltd wins its legal battle against Ebay the owner of Skype. Both sides of the dispute are claiming the other has violated the contractual agreement between them. It is my understanding that Niklas Zennstrom sold Skype to Ebay later to form Joltid; Joltid [...]
