In late June or early July, a new version of the Active Directory PowerShell CMDLETS will be released. I wanted to give everyone a teaser about the new features to be added. Here you go! - Certificate management - Support for cross-domain group membership - inactive accounts enumeration - single command to search in multiple [...]
ADFS 2.0 (Active Directory Federation Services) was released to the public May 5th, 2010 and announced on the “Geneva team blog.” You can download the package from the Microsoft download site and install for free on Windows Server. Stuart Kwan gives a brief overview of ADFS 2.0 capabilities in a new channel 9 video produced [...]
While I was in college I worked summers for a glass company. My job was in the engineering drafting department where I drafted furnace parts, conveyor belts and paint bands that hides the goo they use to stick your windshield to your car. During this time American automakers struggling cope with the explosion of Japanese [...]
During Monday’s keynote address at Quest’s The Expert’s Conference, Microsoft revealed that they have split Forefront Identity Manager from the Sync Engine it uses (formerly MMS, MIIS, ILM 2007) and placed the Sync engine under Conrad Bayer. I am not certain this fully constitutes a shift in strategy for FIM or the reality that legacy [...]
Late last week I was in Washington DC where we held our first DC User’s group at our Rockville, MD location. It was a pleasure to speak with the attendees and to discuss their requirements around ActiveRoles. It still amazes me that when I was given the ActiveRoles product we had around 60 customers and [...]
Early last week I had a great opportunity to meet with customers in Toronto to speak about ActiveRoles and our future direction. The secret is that I actually got more out of the session than they did by hearing the challenges they face every day as they meet the expectation of their employers. On the [...]
Live Webcast: “Lack of Accountability in Access Management: Root Cause of Audit Findings and Compliance Problems.” Tuesday, April 27 11:00 a.m. ET Attend a live webinar with security expert Randy Franklin Smith and learn how proper access management accountability can improve your audit results, as well as protect your information and transactions. Randy [...]
I ran across an interesting site that presents a different point of view on the various giants of the software industry. I found it extremely interesting and would recommend everyone at least take a peek at it. http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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 [...]
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. [...]
