Most of the directory owners to which I speak, have for a number of years, been living with legal or regulatory compliance. Most have followed a predictable pattern of first sweating out their initial audit then later rationalizing better ways to implement whatever compliance policy to which they must adhere for sustained compliance. First Audits are [...]
The four reasons I mentioned in part 2 of this post I hope shed some light on why pure Virtual Directory solutions are not more widely deployed. In all four cases there is only a passing need for a single view of the multiple identity store information, but almost no need to directly interact with [...]
So why do customers need multiple directories? I see two major reasons for customers deploying multiple directories. Separation of Operations – this is the most popular reason and is easily attributed to security or most companies deal with. The most typical reason I see is when a customer has an internal and external. Internal Politics [...]
Over the past few years I have had the pleasure of visiting and working with a pretty large number of directory owners. Those I have visited typically have Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) and many have one or two additional directories and one or two had dozens. For customers that have multiple directories I would have [...]
Google continues to improve their cloud service by adding the ability to share content to a group of additional users. This means you can setup a group and grant it the ability to contribute to your google apps data and so when people are joined to the group they get the permissions you have given [...]
Quest’s The Expert’s Conference is on in Berlin Sept 14th to the 16th and I’ve been give the good fortune to attend. It will be great to see many of the folks that I’ve not seen for a year or so. If you haven’t signed up for TEC Europe yet, be sure to do so [...]
We have posted the public beta of Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration. This beta provides group synchronization between Active Directory and the SharePoint groups in the site of your choice allowing all of the ActiveRoles Server provisioning, deprovisioning, work-flow, self-service, attestation and temporal access management features to work immediately for SharePoint Access Managment. To [...]
Dmitry Sotnikov’s blog has a great entry on how you can use ActiveRoles Server to audit changes made to Active Directory that are being done with PowerShell. http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/audit-powershell-changes-in-ad/
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 [...]
Since I mentioned our work on SharePoint in may (see http://www.bobbobel.com/teched-day-2-sharepoint-and-ad-groups/) I’ve had a lot of request for more details. We have come a long way in the development cycle and so I wanted to share some details about our plans for a public beta that will happen in about one month’s time. In August [...]
