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Last week development released the 6.7.3663 update for ActiveRoles Server. Included in the update are some generic fixes as you would expect, but there is also a set of updates for a long standing limitation that only Internet Explorer worked properly. This update adds multi-browser support and allows the ActiveRoles web interface to be accessed from [...]
Micrsosoft announced the aquistion of Bhold to enhance the FIM family of products. http://www.microsoft.com/pathways/bhold/ http://blogs.gartner.com/ian-glazer/2011/09/23/bhold-wins-the-microsoft-iag-lottery/
For ActiveRoles customers using or considering using Quest Defender, integration between the two products is a requirement. Being able to perform OTP token management from the point where user management is performed is one key to efficient management of strong authentication. Token Management from the ActiveRoles Web Console I was working with a customer this [...]
My colleague Dmitry Kagansky sharing his insites on Security its cost to government. http://fedscoop.com/tv/quest-federal-cto-dmitry-kagansky-on-security-in-government/
In the past it was common to have a requirement that additional details be presented at the top of a web interface form in ActiveRoles – this would often require modification to the underlying XML making the solution difficult to maintain during upgrades. If the requirement is simple enough there is a workaround that may [...]
Yesterday I had the opportunity to present at the Air Force Information Technology Conference 2011 on HSPD-12 and its impact on logical access control. While preparing for this session I realized I needed to re-visit Microsoft’s PKI (Public Key Infrastructure); especially changes in Windows 2008, Vista and Windows 7 strong authentication support. The first thing [...]
The ActiveRoles product comes with Roles (a.k.a. Access Templates) that use the native permission model to provide delegation. To perform delegation you need to identify the Role, the Trustee (in this case an OU Admin) and the scope. The first two are simple as you just select an Access Template and a user or group [...]
I was working with a customer who wanted the option to set the msExchRequireAuthToSendTo attribute during mail enabled group creation. The challenge is that the native Exchange console always defaults this value to TRUE making it easy for the user to forget to un-check the value after the creation of the group. Using ActiveRoles Server [...]
