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 [...]
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 [...]
Managing access to applications and data resources can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. IT administrators are often asked to grant access to sensitive data without knowing the business justification why a user should have it. The result may be inappropriate authorization, access delays, or groups that are bloated, outdated and inaccurate. This lack of [...]
I stumbled upon a really interesting article about how Unity Partnership (a venture between Mouchel and Oldham Councils in the UK) was deploying ActiveRoles Server to provide group provisioning and to control management rights for the staff and students. To read the article here.
Eric Rux at Windows IT Pro magazine took on the job of installing and reviewing a bunch of AD Administration and Provisioning products to help readers select the most comprehensive and complete solution. Eric compared four different products and to me it was no surprise that ActiveRoles came out on top as the clear winner. What [...]
On January 27th I’ve been asked to deliver another web cast showing how you can ac hive Access Accountability and Sustained Compliance with Quest’s ActiveRoles Server. I’m going to demonstrate the new features of ActivceRoles Server and Self-Service Manager that allow you to get control over the access granted within your organization while at the [...]
My friend Stuart Harrison just announced that a new version of Quest Password Manager has just been released. This new version contains several really cool integration points with ActiveRoles Server and ActiveRole Quick Connect to provide a seamless cross-platform credential management solution. Other new features include: Windows 7 support Windows 2008 R1/R2 support IE8 support Captcha [...]
Along with the release of ActiveRoles Server 6.5 we have also updated the Active Directory PowerShell CMDLETS. This release will continue to work with the supported versions of Active Directory as it has in the past. When you are using PowerShell with ActiveRoles Server it is only compatible with ActiveRoles Server version 6.5 and no [...]
I am extremely proud to announce the public release of ActiveRoles Server 6.5 with enhanced work-flow, extensibility and broader platform support. This release is accompanied by ActiveRoles Self-Service Manager 2.0 that both defines and enforces Access Accountability while streamlining access management providing sustained compliance. Congratulations and thank you to the collective Quest team for making [...]
