Kuppinger Cole produced a report covering the provisioning product I’ve been managing since 2004. The report paints a great picture of where Kuppinger Cole sees the product’s position in comparison to the rest of the market. Personally, it is very rewarding to see how well respected our product has become. (Read the report here)
I took this photo during our lunch break. As you can see by trhe photo most people are thrilled to have me stop talking and given some great food.
The fourth annual ActiveRoles Server User Conference is being held on Thursday,October 22 at the Marriott in Newton Massachusetts. If you are a current ActiveRoles customer you can register and join us as well as peers from Canada and New England, for a productive learning experience. It’s a great chance to share best practices, collaborate and increase your product [...]
Along with a number of great improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 came a couple of surprises. For those of you who use the Active Directory Users and Computers console, an improved replacement has been added. This new interface makes many tasks easier and the technology underneath is PowerShell rather than ADSI, but some users [...]
The Microsoft team has announced on its blog that Exchange 2010 is code complete (meaning they have finished all the features and testing) and are preparing to release the product.
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) has a serious issue that means it is incompatible with the FIPS security standard; an important standard to many. When you run application based on WF on a secure system the workflow application will crash. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928833/) The only workaround seems to be to disable security for the components of the application that [...]
The BBC reported that they had confirmed with Microsoft that thousands of Microsoft Live accounts were compramised then posted online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8291268.stm