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 get one question frequently from both customers and colleges. “Why was ActiveRoles able to so easily beat the competition over the past seven years?” Unfortunately, there isn’t a single answer, rather it is a combination of design elements put into the product over time. Purpose Built for Active Directory -Unlike other solutions, ActiveRoles was [...]
Some of you may not have heard that Symantec’s bv-Admin was officially end-of-lifed and is no longer supported as of early in 2011. Originally a Windows NT management tool, later it was retrofitted to manage AD. While bv-Admin had several ground breaking features for its time, the acquisition of Bindview, development challenges and competitive pressures appear [...]
What is ActiveRoles Quick Connect Express? With the latest release of ActiveRoles Quick Connect we bundled the Synchronization engine, the AD connector and the ADLDS (formerly ADAM) connector together. The big news here is that we labeled this core piece “Quick Connect Express” and you can download and used it to sync objects between those [...]
I am very proud to announce that ActiveRoles Server 6.7 and Quick Connect 4.7 become generally available (GA) today. Look for the new product to be on our download servers over the next several hours. As with all previous releases – this release has several building blocks that when exploited will have a huge impact on [...]
Dmitry Sotnikov posted a brief article talking about the new PowerGUI power pack based on the ActiveRoles PowerShell CMDLETS (a.k.a. Quest’s AD CMDLETS) for Microsoft PKI management. Read the article here. Download the latest version of CMDLETS here.
An ActivecRoles user’s group meeting may be headed for a city near you. Düsseldorf, Germany Oct 6th (TEC) Cleveland, Ohio Oct 12 Boston, MA Oct 14th London, England October 18th or 19th (Date to be determined) Houston, Texas October 26th Please email Allison Main or Bob Bobel for additional information or to register.
Upcoming Live Webcast 9/21/2010 11:00:00 AM EST Register Today! One of my frequent consulting activities is performing audits of Active Directory for corporate Internal Audit departments and hardly an audit has gone by where I wasn’t obligated to bring to Board’s attention the number of all-powerful administrators present in Active Directory. This is a real [...]
Today our team uploaded an Policy Extension to the ActiveRoles community for Postini! This policy will both provision and deprovision Postini gateway accounts when the associated Active Directory account is updated. To use this policy you simply download the policy, install it in ActiveRoles Server then configure the policy with your Postini account details. The new policy is free [...]
The 1.4 version of the ActiveRoles AD CMDLETS went live a few moments ago and you can download them here http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx.
