The focus of the next version will certainly have a security centric theme around certificate management as this seems to be an area that has not been effectively covered by anyone in PowerShell up to this point. I won’t go into details in this post, but I will provide another update next week with more details – so stay tuned!

The connector will also provision base SAP accounts, set passwords for those accounts and assign SAP roles. In combination with ActiveRoles Self-Service Manager you can now allow people within your organization to request access to SAP modules/resources through the a approval driven self-service process.

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 access policies. Consequently, users need to maintain different user accounts and different passwords on these systems.

Maintaining several passwords on several different systems is a hassle for users and administrators. Quick Connect provides for Quick Connect Capture Agent to be installed on all domain controllers in the source Active Directory connections. Capture Agent tracks changes that were made to user password in Active Directory, and then Quick Connect Sync Engine synchronizes the passwords basing on this information.

What’s New: Re-designed Sync History Log – The Sync History feature of the application allows you to view reports on the performed synchronization workflow runs. The Sync History tab allows you to display a list of all performed synchronization workflows runs, and then view the report on the workflow run of interest. In addition to this possibility, the new version of the Sync History tab allows you first to filter the synchronization reports for all object pairs using some filter criteria, and then select the report to view.

What’s New: Additional Rules for Synchronizing Multi-valued attributes – In Quick Connect 4.0 we provided multi-attribute synchronization but we found we needed more options.  Group and role assignments are often stored using multiple values in a single attribute and many traditional provisioning solutions are limited single value attribute provisioning . Flexible multi-value capability allows roles and groups to be synchronized between systems. For example, you may want to synchronize an SAP Role to an Microsoft Exchange Distribution List so you can easily email those individuals. Without multi-value capability coordinating such seemingly simple lists becomes very-very difficult.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020310-old-security-flaws-still-a.html

My colleague Jackson Shaw did a great job explaining the situation and sharing his incite on what this means to SUN customers.  His blog is certainly worth the read. http://jacksonshaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/sun-idm-is-dead.html

What is our secret? Simple, customer driven development, strong expertise and a team that is passionate about their work.

 http://windowsitpro.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/103318/pg/4/4.html

The biggest news about this release is that Quick Connect can synchronize passwords between Active Directory and connected systems. Active Directory and connected systems are governed by different access policies. Consequently, users need to maintain different user accounts and different passwords on these systems. Maintaining several passwords on several different systems is a hassle for users and  administrators.  Quick Connect now provides a Password Capture Agent to be installed on all domain controllers in the source Active Directory connections. The Capture Agent tracks changes that were made to user password in Active Directory, and then Quick Connect Sync Engine synchronizes the passwords basing on this information.

Also new in this release:

• Updated design of history log to allow better searching and filtering
• Additional rules for synchronizing multi-value attributes
• Various improvments and resovled issues

We had a excellent year in 2009 and with this hot new release of Quick Connect I anticipate an even better 2010.

This is really-really cool and it appears that $5M has already been raised; a billion will probably be needed. Once you send the txt message, you will get a message back asking you to confirm your donation to which you must reply YES before the $10 is added to your phone bill.  http://www.redcross.org/

If someone else pays your phone bill (like if you have a company phone) you may want to donate a different way.  For example,  The company I work for, Quest Software partnered with Iridium to donate a bunch of Satellite phones and airtime to Haitian officials to coordinate relief efforts. And another example is a video from Jimmy Buffett created to raise awarness about the Red Cross’s text message donation program. The way I look at it, this could be my family needing help.