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 [...]
On Friday I posted part 1 of the additional details about how Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration will provision SharePoint. This post, Part 2, will provide some additional details on the SharePoint Attestation and Remediation aspects of our solution. SharePoint Attestation: For customers who own ActiveRoles Server and ActiveRoles Self-Service manager, this new [...]
New: ActiveRoles Quick Connect 4.0.3 Now Generally Available to the public. An update to the Quick Connect synchronization engine has been released. This is a maintenance update with several minor changes to support several new connectors being released at the same time. New: ActiveRoles Quick Connect for Lotus Notes extends ActiveRoles Server to quickly provision Lotus Notes [...]
Attestation describes any certification review process where an individual swears to or witness/confirm something important. This term is almost universally used to describe a review/certification process that requires resource owners to verify their authorized users during on an on-going basis. This on-going process Attestation usually provides an organization with a measure of protection from liability [...]
The presents in my inbox just keep arriving. A few moments ago I received notice that ActiveRoles Quick Connect for Lotus notes went gold today. Now that I have recieved the Gold code from my development team, work on delivering the public release can begin. The public release process involves coordinating the various groups within [...]
I had breakfast with a colleague from Microsoft this morning and so I was late getting into the office today. When I arrived I had a little present waiting for me in my inbox; the Quick Connect 4.0.3 gold code. This was a surprise treat because it was delivered a little earlier than expected. This is [...]
As a follow up to the article in Advanced for Health Information’s artical about Childrens Memorial Hospital, Quest has published a case study with some additional detail about how Childrens went about achiving such valuable results in such a short amount of time. http://www.quest.com/Quest_Site_Assets/SuccessStories/CSW_CMH-ARSPM-US-MJ.pdf
Google released an utility for Microsoft Outlook that moves the user’s backend mail service from Microsoft Exchagne to Google Premier Service. Essentially, the user runs the Google solution which then copies e-mail, calendar items, contacts etc… from the user’s old Exchange Server to the user’s Google Premier account. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQcwW9hNRMk
I had a customer ask me if there was any way ActiveRoles could help them manage the Active Directory groups that were used to control user access to organization’s SharePoint sites. The problem the customer was having is that some SharePoint owners in the organization had not always used AD groups; more often they had [...]
