Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform got a small update last week when they added PowerShell commands allowing users to manage services hosted on the platform. Ryan Dunn of Microsoft said on his blog that the pack called the Windows Azure Service Management cmdlets (WASM) were built to give people working with Azure an API to [...]
Following up on the US East Coast and Berlin User Group on April 28th, 2010 we are holding another ActiveRoles Server user group at the Quest’s The Expert Conference. For more detail go to http://www.theexpertsconference.com/agenda-speakers/quest-user-groups/
I have had a lot of questions about when the next version of the ActiveRoles Management Shell for AD (a.k.a. Quest AD CMDLETs) would be released. I don’t have an exact date, but I wanted everyone to know that we are working on our next release and should have a beta in the next 60 [...]
If you are not familiar with this, he IE View add-in for FireFox allows Microsoft Internet Explorer pages to be rendered better within FireFox. At the end of January Paul Roub released a new version (IE View 1.4.5.1) to Mozdev.org to resolve questions about compatibility with FireFox 3.6.
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Accompanying the Quick Connect 4.5 release last week we also made public a Technical Preview of our SAP connector. This connector will allow Quick Connect to directly pull authoritative SAP HR data and use it to provision other systems. This technical preview is pre-release software and as such should not be used in a production environment. [...]
I stumbled upon a really interesting article about how Unity Partnership (a venture between Mouchel and Oldham Councils in the UK) was deploying ActiveRoles Server to provide group provisioning and to control management rights for the staff and students. To read the article here.
Quest Password Manager is capable of integrating with Quick Connect to leverage its functionality and enable users, help desk operators, and administrators to more efficiently manage passwords across multiple data sources in the enterprise. When a user in Password Manager views their profile they can be given the option of individually changing individual passwords on [...]
Last week I forgot to mention that we renamed our Exchange Resource Forest Manager module to Quick Connect for Exchange Resource Forests and updated it to support the latest version of Exchange and ActiveRoles Server. This module extends the multi-forest management capability of ActiveRoles Server to synchronize and provision accounts between a User Account Forest [...]
I am pleased to announce that later today, Quick Connect 4.5 will be made Generally Available (GA)to the public. You can now download the bits from http://www.quest.com/common/registration.aspx?requestdefid=20088. What’s New: Password Synchronization – Quick Connect can synchronize passwords between Active Directory and some categories of connected systems. Active Directory and connected systems are governed by different [...]
