As. Sr. Product Manger for ActiveRoles I was asked and will be giving a live web demo on Quest’s Active Directory provisioning and automating solution (ActiveRoles) this Wednesday, September 23rd at 11:00 AM EST. I would like to invite everyone to join me for this live web demo where you will see how ActiveRoles Server can [...]
One of the conversations I had during my week in Berlin was with Dimitry Kaganski a Sr. Architect here at Quest. He had been asked by a customer, why we were not using Microsoft Outlook Client built-in work-flow to allow Outlook users to click a button to approve or reject work-flow requests in ActiveRoles Server. [...]
While I’ve been here in Berlin at the Quest TEC conference, I have received several questions about when the next version of the Quest AD CMDLETS will be available. Version 1.3 is in the works and we should have a public preview version in the next month or so – so stay tuned.
Most of the directory owners to which I speak, have for a number of years, been living with legal or regulatory compliance. Most have followed a predictable pattern of first sweating out their initial audit then later rationalizing better ways to implement whatever compliance policy to which they must adhere for sustained compliance. First Audits are [...]
In the morning tomorrow I depart for Berlin Germany to attend the Quest European TEC conference. While there we are holding our first ever EMEA ActiveRoles Server User Group meeting where we will be talking about the next release and some future product directions. The User Group will be held at the tail end of [...]
Dmitry Sotnikov wrote a great article on how to locate large groups in Active Directory using PowerShell. In the example script he shows how you can use the free ActiveRoles AD CMDLETS to locate the largest groups in Active Directory. Read Dmitry’s Blog Here
The four reasons I mentioned in part 2 of this post I hope shed some light on why pure Virtual Directory solutions are not more widely deployed. In all four cases there is only a passing need for a single view of the multiple identity store information, but almost no need to directly interact with [...]
Shane Schick of Computer World spoke with Raj Mallempti of VMWare and was told that VMWare expects Windows 7 to bring a windfall of new support to VDI inititives. His reasoning is that XP is nearing end of life, most companies have not deployed Vista and are now faced with potentially expensive hardware upgrades to [...]
So why do customers need multiple directories? I see two major reasons for customers deploying multiple directories. Separation of Operations – this is the most popular reason and is easily attributed to security or most companies deal with. The most typical reason I see is when a customer has an internal and external. Internal Politics [...]
Following up on my post at the beginning of August about Skype possibly being discontinuedand today it was announced that Ebay is selling off 65% of its share of Skype in a move that is called “Unsurprising” by some analysts. Check out MSNBC’s coverage here.
